Large Language Model based chatbots engage human users in discursive practices as interlocutors capable of vast linguistic performances but do not qualify as proper communicative agents, since their behavior adapts to the input from human users but is not based on the self-reflective normative re-orientation of agency required by the theory of communicative action.
This paper investigates whether LLMs can engage in communicative action, produce speech acts, and function as social agents and advances the novel claim that LLMs are “asymmetrical communicative agents” that satisfy behavioral but not intentional conditions for communicative action.
This article describes the communicative situation created by the spread of conversational interfaces built on large language models, a situation for which linguistic theory was not designed: users mitigate directives, thank the system and apologise for their own imprecision, although a language model holds no beliefs,...
O. Stoika, Bohdana Savka· Humanities science current i...· 0 citations
Recent philosophical work on large language models (LLMs) has increasingly appealed to theories of assertion to make sense of our conversational interactions with these systems. Two strategies are especially prominent: functionalist accounts, which characterize assertion in terms of the public conversational roles and...
Germán Massaguer Gómez, Antonio Gaitán Torres· Synthese· 0 citations
Speech act theory conceptualizes language use as a form of action in which utterances perform communicative functions beyond their propositional content. Within this framework, refusals are defined as negative responses to requests, invitations, offers, and suggestions. Unlike simple acceptances, refusals are interacti...
Haifa Almotiary· Journal of English language...· 0 citations
Pragmatics represents a vital extension of modern linguistics, transcending the formal structural boundaries of the sentence to enter the realm of live communication among language users. The significance of this field lies in its ability to explain how discourse meets the needs of human interaction, conveying the spea...
Mohammed Al-Khaqani, Haider Al-Shaibani· Nanar Journal for Humanities...· 0 citations
Summary. Contemporary linguistics increasingly views language not merely as a structural system of grammar and vocabulary, but as a multidimensional communicative phenomenon shaped by discourse, pragmatics, and sociocultural interaction. Language functions within dynamic social contexts where speakers employ diverse di...
R. Khalilova· The Actual Problems of study...· 0 citations
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