Automation in Communication - The Ideological Implications of Language Machines

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.

List of contents

1. Machines Are Talking ... But Are They Actually Speaking? 2. Laying the Groundwork: Posthumanism, Boundaries, and Assemblages 3. The Death of the Speaker 4. A Hearer-Based Pragmatics 5. Gradations of Anthropomorphism 6. Creativity and Heritage: Two Elephants in the Room 7. Towards Posthumanist Organizations 8. Assemblages and the Emergence of Language from Communication

About the author

Lionel Wee is a Provost's Chair Professor in the Department of English, Linguistics and Theatre Studies Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the National University of Singapore. He sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, English World-Wide, Sociolinguistic Studies, Multilingual Margins and Studies in World Language Problems.

Summary

By drawing on multiple examples from healthcare, religion, service encounters and poetry, Lionel Wee presents rich insights into the use of automation in communication through a posthumanist lens.

Product details

• Authors: Lionel Wee, Lionel (National University of Singapore Wee, Wee Lionel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.09.2024
• EAN: 9781032741611
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3274161-1
• No. of pages: 160
• Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Artificial Intelligence, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, COMPUTERS / Networking / General, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Study & Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Literature: history & criticism, Language teaching theory and methods, ELT examinations & certificates, Computer networking & communications, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Literature: history and criticism, COMPUTERS / Artificial Intelligence / General, ELT: teaching theory & methods, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Computer networking and communications