Sandstead & Kibler, "Voice in L2 Writing in the Age of AI" build on Matsuda and think about how chatbot and human voice can be conceptualized in distinction from each other. With pedagogical implications added on.

#writingstudies #genai+writing #cdnwrds

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Matsuda on "Identity in Written Discourse" continues to provide me with an excellent conceptual accounting of the range of pragmatic elements that can be part of what people mean when they talk about "voice," thus pointing in useful directions for how we might analyze it linguistically.

There's a few publications that I found helpful recently. A good qualitative analysis of language elements which tend to differ between human and chatbot dialogue plus their ideological implications is Van Poucke, "ChatGPT, the Perfect Virtual Teaching Assistant?"

That's wonderful—I hope it gets accepted. Whenever it is published, and if you have the capacity to remember, I would love to receive a link.

Are you saying that just because fascism is taking over Thomas Chatterton can’t be writing yet another column on his one, simple hat trick?!?!

We are back from our break. Let’s continue talking about the possibility of parody. . .

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That’s interesting. I just clicked through to your paper on illocution and Reddit posts and I really like it.

More seriously.

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I recommend living every moment of your adult life in such a way that—at age 66—you will not ever feel tempted, inclined, or compelled to post these kinds of details publicly and on social media.

So what can I say. I have to think about it, after years of not doing so. But hey, I learned things in between. I have better theory to handle it now. I would even say it’s become an enjoyable question.

One set of laws, Tim, I was promised one set of laws! 😭

When parody is hard.

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Happy birthday to you! 💐

(And to her.)