Automation in Communication

The Ideological Implications of Language Machines

Lionel Wee (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

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English

Routledge
19 September 2024

Sociolinguistics; Semantics; Literature: history & criticism; ELT: teaching theory & methods; Artificial intelligence

Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics

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.

As communication becomes increasingly automated, the use of automation creates significant conceptual challenges for ideologies about language, beliefs about the nature of language, as well as assumptions about the roles that interpretation, anthropomorphism, and folk theories of mind play when language is used in communication. This book unravels the ideological implications of automation in communication and provides a new theoretical ground to address the major issues raised by automation. Wee discusses the importance of thinking carefully about how we identify and distinguish the roles of speaker and hearer. He also argues that we re-evaluate our understanding of the relationship between language and community.

This book will be vital to students interested in studying the intersections of AI, language and communication, as well as researchers working in communication studies, linguistics and the broader sociology of language in the age of technological change.

By: Lionel Wee (National University of Singapore Singapore)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 470g
ISBN: 9781032741611
ISBN 10: 1032741619
Series: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 19 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

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

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.