Marcin Pawlicki

The Algorithm as a Hidden Addressee of Speech Acts: pragmatic communicative strategies in Polish-language social media discourse

The article proposes a pragmatic account of how social media platform algorithms operate as functional, hidden addressee of speech act. It begins with a review of research on algorithmic content moderation, users’ algorithmic awareness, the concept of the algorithmic addressee, and the phenomenon of algospeak. The firs...