Habermas and Searle in University - Teaching the Language-Action Perspective to Undergraduates

Publication Type
Contribution to conference
Authors
Mareike Schoop, Stefanie Kethers
Year of publication
2000
Published in
The Fifth International Workshop on the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modelling, LAP 2000
Editor
Mareike Schoop, Christoph Quix
Series/labeling
Aachener Informatik Berichte 2000-6
Page (from - to)
193-200
Conference location
Aachen, Germany
Abstract

The Language-Action Perspective (LAP) has attracted much interest in an information systems context. Many research approaches have been presented and discussed. However, there have been no reports on teaching LAP to students. We argue that it is of prime importance to expose students to LAP if we want to attract new researchers to the area. In this paper we will discuss the results of two courses on LAP for undergraduate students in computer science. It was found that the best way to introduce students to the area of LAP is by teaching LAP concepts in an intuituive way using every-day examples and by combining LAP with a current "hot topic" such as Electronic Commerce.

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