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From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer)
Newsgroups: comp.groupware
Subject: Re: Group Communication Protocols
Message-ID: <90007.095243UH2@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 7 Jan 90 14:52:43 GMT
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In article <1990Jan6.211045.12857@oracle.com>, kgrant@.com (Ken Grant) says:
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>In article <4150@brazos.Rice.edu> bro@titan.rice.edu (Douglas Monk) writes:
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>This means of classifying "illocutionary acts" is typically called
>speech-act theory.  The gist of it is that an utterance is classified
>according to its purpose.  Utterances can be to inform, to direct, to
>request, and so forth.  We used this sort of notion for taxonimizing
>message types in the Information Lens.
>

Would someone offer a summary of the Information Lens, and perhaps a
good reference or two?  Thanks.

                               lee