Artificial Intelligence and Discourse
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This book is the second volume in the two-volume set Artificial Intelligence and Discourse . It explores how generative AI tools such as ChatGPT-3, ChatGPT-4, Gemini, and CoPilot are transforming human-machine interaction and communication across institutions and individuals in education, journalism, policy, and creative industries. With contributions from nine countries, it examines GenAI not just as a tool but as an active conversational partner shaping language, identity, and professional practice. The chapters analyse anthropomorphism, algorithmic bias, and the challenges of meaning-making in contexts ranging from classroom writing and resume design to political speechwriting and STEM creativity. Case studies reveal how AI reshapes agency, creativity, authority, and self-perception, while exposing potential risks of miscommunication, bias, and cultural erasure. Drawing on discourse analysis, linguistic pragmatics, digital humanities and rhetoric, the volume offers accessible, interdisciplinary perspectives for researchers, educators, and policymakers seeking to understand and critically engage with the cultural and communicative consequences of AI in everyday life.
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"This volume provides an innovative and rigorous contribution to the understanding of human-machine interactions. Contributors focus on generative AI and use corpus linguistics, pragmatics, and thematic analysis to study issues of authorship, identity, trust, and knowledge production. Case studies in education, industry, and professional communication provide empirical detail, while theoretical framing places AI in larger historical and geopolitical contexts. This volume is useful to researchers, educators, and graduate students interested in discourse, digital humanities, and AI ethics." (Razvan Saftoiu, Universitatea Transilvania din Bra?ov, Romania)
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Banafsheh Karamifar is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and French as a Second Language at Laurentian University, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada. Her research bridges critical discourse analysis, semantics, cultures and societies, with a current focus on AI and Generative AI as discursive and socio-technical artefacts.
Andrea C. Valente is an educator, researcher, and consultant in higher education as well as a Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at York University, Canada. Her work sits at the intersection of neuro-humanities, pedagogy, applied linguistics, and generative AI, examining how emerging technologies transform teaching, learning, and knowledge production.
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Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2 Epistemological Challenges of Generative AI as Digital Pharmakon.- Chapter 3 Empowerment or Dependency Generative AI's Dual Impact on Self-Efficacy.- Chapter 4 ChatGPT's Rewriting Function The margins of vocabulary and grammar structures.- Chapter 5 Limits of the anthropomorphisation of discourse in chatbots.- Chapter 6 Of Humans and AI A Critical Discourse Analysis of Their Encounters and Interactions.-
Chapter 7 From formal literary language to digital literary language the link between XML-TEI, the dramatic genre, and ChatGPT.- Chapter 8 Between Promise and Pitfalls Artificial Intelligence and Miscommunication in Literary Writing in Tunisian Higher Education.- Chapter 9 ChatGPT and Unintentional Resume Falsehoods The Need for Human Intervention.- Chapter 10 Exploring the Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Based Rhetoric Perspectives on GenAI in Political Speechwriting.- Chapter 11 No Map Available Navigating the Discourse of Creativity and Self-Efficacy in STEM Careers in Germany.
