Anmar Thaqib Abbood

Toward a post-humanist pragmatics: investigating anaphoricity in human-AI interactions

Abstract Focusing on anaphora, the paper draws attention to the need to test pragmatic theories in light of the rise of post-humanist communicators, i.e. chatbots. The paper analyzes data collected from human-AI interactions including different types of anaphora. The analysis shows that chatbots perform well in recover...