Speech Act Theory and Artificial Intelligence

Harris, D. (2020). Speech Act Theory and Artificial Intelligence. Handbook of Pragmatics and Language.

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2020

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Primes

• Cooperative Principle and Gricean Maxims
  • Current approaches are heuristic: systems use training data to learn patterns of maxim-flouting and implicature-derivation, but the reasoning is implicit in learned weights, not explicit and transparent.

    This sourceHarris speech act theory and artificial intelligence LLMs dialogue agents intent classification.

• Emphasis

  • This sourceHarris speech act theory and artificial intelligence LLMs dialogue agents intent classification.

• Pragmatic Politeness Strategies
  • **T3: Clarity vs. face preservation.

    This sourceHarris speech act theory and artificial intelligence LLMs dialogue agents intent classification.

• Register (Style) Shifting
  • Systems like Claude and GPT capture implicit register patterns from training data and apply them conditionally to match user context and instructions (

    This sourceHarris speech act theory and artificial intelligence LLMs dialogue agents intent classification.

• Speech Act Theory (Illocution, Perlocution)
  • UI design that hides illocutionary force (unclear button labels) produces confusion or unintended actions.

    This sourceHarris speech act theory and artificial intelligence LLMs dialogue agents intent classification.

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