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In article <d5Vc02Ns7b8k01@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com> esf00@amdahl.uts.amdahl.com (Elliott S. Frank) writes:
>In article <90005.104713UH2@PSUVM.BITNET> UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) writes:
>>In article <4318@nttmhs.ntt.JP>, yam@nttmhs.ntt.jp (Toshihiko YAMAKAMI) says:
>>> What types of high level group communication
>>>protocols do we use in group activities?

>Fernando Flores did some work with Terry Winograd of Stanford in the
>early Eighties on this taxonomy. (Does anyone have a good citation
>for this stuff, i.e., generally available outside university libraries
>and written in some variant of English?)

"Understanding Computers and Cognition; A New Foundation for Design",
by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores, published by Addison-Wesley. I have
a paperback copy, (c) 1986, 1987 by Ablex Publishing. I got it at Rice's
Campus Bookstore, but have seen it at well-stocked technical bookstores.

>[I did some work with Fernando in the mid-Eighties, when he maintained
>that a rather rigid taxonomy (only four categories) was sufficient for
>*all* communication. (This is the basis of the 'Coordinator', one of
>the first groupware packages.)]

I find a taxonomy of "illocutionary acts" attributed to John Searle on
pages 58-59 with five categories: Assertives, Directives, Commissives,
Expressives, and Declarations. This comes from:

Searle, John R. A taxonomy of illocutionary acts, in K. Gunderson (Ed.),
    Language, Mind and Knowledge, Minneapolis: Univ. of Minnesota, 1975,
    344-369. Reprinted in:
Searle, John R., Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech
    Acts, Cambridge: Cambridge Univ., 1979.

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Doug Monk (bro@rice.edu)

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