Jens Allwood

[1] He is also director of the interdisciplinary cognitive science and communication oriented center SSKKII at the same university.

corpus linguistics, computer modelling of dialog, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics as well as intercultural communication.

Activity-based communication analysis (ACA) is a term originally coined by Jens Allwood.

[2] It constitutes an interdisciplinary approach for analyzing social activity inspired by areas such as philosophy, linguistics, anthropology, psychology and sociology.

ACA has evolved from a criticism of some shortcomings in texts put forward by scholars (such as Wittgenstein; Austin; Searle; Sacks; Grice; Sinclair & Coulthard).