Search for dissertations about: "speech-acts"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 14 swedish dissertations containing the word speech-acts.

2. 1. A Unified Framework for e-Commerce Systems Development : Business Process Pattern Perspective

   Author : Prasad M. Jayaweera; Paul Johannesson; Hans Weigand; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; e-Commerce; Business Model; Process Model; UMM UN CEFACT’s Modeling Methodology ; BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation ; Speech Acts; REA Ontology Resource-Event-Agent Ontology ; Enterprise Modeling Ontology; ebXML Electronic Business using eXtensible Markup Language ; Business Collaboration; Computer science; Datavetenskap;

   Abstract : In electronic commerce, systems development is based on two fundamental types of models, business models and process models. A business model is concerned with value exchanges among business partners, while a process model focuses on operational and procedural aspects of business communication. READ MORE

4. 2. "The Relative Merits of Goodness and Originality" : The Ethics of Storytelling in Peter Carey’s Novels

   Author : Christer Larsson; Stephen Knight; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; Peter Carey; Speech Acts; Closure; Ethics and Literature; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; engelska;

   Abstract : The aim of this study is to demonstrate that recurrent formal and thematic patterns in Peter Carey’s novels suggest an interrelation between the works, and that an analysis which takes that interrelation into account can extract an argument concerning the ethics of storytelling from the texts. The issue of the status of fictional discourse receives prominent and complex consideration in Carey’s novels, and this study argues that Carey presents storytelling as an intentional mode of social interaction, defined and governed by extra-linguistic conventions. READ MORE

5. 3. From Workflow to Conversation

   Author : Jan Ljungberg; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Speech acts; genre; communication; design;

   Abstract : This thesis is about designing information technology to support communicative work. The thesis has a theoretical focus, informed by two empirical studies, but the aim is not to formulate a grand theory, but rather to find new concepts and patterns of thought useful for design. READ MORE

6. 4. Online Communities and Learning for Health : The Use of Online Health Communities and Online Expertise for People with Established Bad Habits

   Author : Åsa Smedberg; Jacob Palme; Caroline Haythornthwaite; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : NATURVETENSKAP; NATURAL SCIENCES; Health community; online community; learning; bad habits; conversation; speech acts; Ask the Expert system; holistic.; Computer and systems science; Data- och systemvetenskap; Computer and Systems Sciences; data- och systemvetenskap;

   Abstract : Patients as well as citizens are getting more and more empowered due to the use of the Internet. The last years have brought a new trend to the Internet, the virtual or online health communities, used by many people and for various purposes. READ MORE

7. 5. Sense and Sensibility : Four Essays on Evaluative Discourse

   Author : Nils Franzén; Matti Eklund; Andreas Stokke; Pekka Väyrynen; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : aesthetics; aesthetic language; evaluative language; expressivism; Allan Gibbard; R.M. Hare; David Hume; John MacFarlane. metaethics; moral language; philosophy of language; predicates of personal taste; relativism; speech-acts; Filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : The subject of this thesis is the nature of evaluative terms and concepts. It investigates various phenomena that distinguish evaluative discourse from other types of language use. READ MORE