35.2901, Calls: Discourse Analysis / Languages - "Prosody in Human AI Interaction" (Jrnl)

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Subject: 35.2901, Calls: Discourse Analysis / Languages - "Prosody in Human AI Interaction" (Jrnl)

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Date: 18-Oct-2024
From:  Aron Wang [aron.wang at mdpi.com]
Subject: Discourse Analysis / Languages - "Prosody in Human AI Interaction" (Jrnl)


Call for Papers:

Languages is planning to build the Special Issue "Prosody in Human AI
Interaction" which will be edited by Prof. John Hellermann.

The linguistics of prosody has been part of phonological studies since
the 20th century (Ladd, 2008). Since its inception in the 1960s,
conversation analysis (CA) has also shown how prosody (intonation
contour, pitch height, and rhythm) plays a crucial role in structuring
language use in social interactions. More systematic investigations
since the 1990s have made it possible to use CA to show how
participants in interaction orient to the prosodic production of turns
as well as provide an emic perspective on the functional and
interactional import of prosody, including its role in action
formation, turn-taking, repair, and topic change (Couper-Kuhlen &
Selting, 1996; Auer et al., 1999; Couper-Kuhlen & Ford, 2004;
Barth-Weingarten, Reber, & Selting, 2010; Szczepek-Reed, 2010). With
the burgeoning development of language production and perception by
computers, along with society’s leap into the use of large language
models, it is even more urgent now, in the mid-2020s, to examine the
sequential structure of human–AI interactions (Brandt et al., 2023;
Due & Lüchow, forthcoming) and how prosodic cues play a role in
organizing turns and sequences in such interactions. The studies that
have focused on prosody and AI have, so far, been experimental in
nature and have not focused on the basic conversation analytic
principles of sequential organization and participant orientation.

This Special Issue will include reports on the investigations of
prosody in the interactions between humans and various forms of
artificial intelligence, including voice user interfaces (Siri, Alexa,
etc.) and other generative pre-trained transformer technologies such
as ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot. The studies will use
methods from CA and build on previous prosodic analyses to describe
what may be an emerging new type of language culture (Jones, 2024).

Although studies of the pragmatics of human AI interaction are
beginning (Dombi, et al., 2022, 2024; Tuncer, et al., 2023; Brandt &
Hazel, 2024), we know of no other full-length Special Issues or books
that have been completed on prosody since 2010 and no publications
focusing on the prosody of human–AI interaction using CA. Our aim is
to include works from a variety of languages in the Special Issue.
Research in this area would investigate the following topics and
others:
 - how are particular actions formulated prosodically by humans for AI
interlocutors,
 - does the prosodic formulation differ from the research on
human-human interaction
 - does the prosodic formulation of turns by an AI lead to unexpected
orientations by the human interlocutor,
 - is there an English language bias in the prosody of the AI in other
languages

We request that, prior to submitting a manuscript, interested authors
initially submit a proposed title and an abstract of 200 words
summarizing their intended contribution. Please send it to the Guest
Editor (jkh at pdx.edu) or to the Languages Editorial office
(languages at mdpi.com). Abstracts will be reviewed by the Guest Editor
for the purpose of ensuring proper fit within the scope of the Special
Issue. Full manuscripts will undergo a double-blind peer-review.

Link to submit:
https://www.mdpi.com/journal/languages/special_issues/654KFZPFIY

Tentative Completion Schedule
Abstract Submission Deadline: 28 February 2025
Notification of Abstract Acceptance: 1 April 2025
Full Manuscript Deadline: 1 September 2025

Prof. Dr. John Hellermann
Guest Editor



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