@article{ART003330117},
author={Park Kwang Gil},
title={Is Generative AI a Speaker?},
journal={International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)},
year={2026},
volume={22},
number={22},
pages={4-16}
TY - JOUR
AU - Park Kwang Gil
TI - Is Generative AI a Speaker?
JO - International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL)
PY - 2026
VL - 22
IS - 22
PB - Glocal Institute of Language and Literary Studies(GILLS)
SP - 4
EP - 16
AB - This study examines whether generative AI can be regarded as a speaker from a pragmatic perspective, focusing on the growing reality of human–AI communication through natural language. It first reviews the concept of speaker in pragmatics and identifies four constitutive criteria: intentionality, context awareness, hearer-directedness, and interactional capacity. It then analyzes the language-generation mechanism of generative AI and related discussions in Korean linguistics and adjacent fields in order to evaluate its speaker-like functions. The findings suggest that generative AI cannot be recognized as an ontological speaker in the same sense as a human being. However, it does exhibit speaker-like functions at the level of functional intentionality, context sensitivity, hearer orientation, and interactional performance. In addition, users tend to experience AI-generated responses as utterances addressed to themselves rather than as mere informational outputs. On this basis, the study proposes the concept of the “functional speech actor” as a limited and conditional form of speakerhood.
KW - Generative AI; LLM Speaker; Pragmatics; functional speech subject;functionalspeaker;communicative intention;listener experience
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Park Kwang Gil. (2026). Is Generative AI a Speaker?. International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), 22(22), 4-16.
Park Kwang Gil. 2026, "Is Generative AI a Speaker?", International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), vol.22, no.22 pp.4-16.
Park Kwang Gil "Is Generative AI a Speaker?" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 22.22 pp.4-16 (2026) : 4.
Park Kwang Gil. Is Generative AI a Speaker?. 2026; 22(22), 4-16.
Park Kwang Gil. "Is Generative AI a Speaker?" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 22, no.22 (2026) : 4-16.
Park Kwang Gil. Is Generative AI a Speaker?. International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL), 22(22), 4-16.
Park Kwang Gil. Is Generative AI a Speaker?. International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL). 2026; 22(22) 4-16.
Park Kwang Gil. Is Generative AI a Speaker?. 2026; 22(22), 4-16.
Park Kwang Gil. "Is Generative AI a Speaker?" International Journal of Glocal Language and Literary Studies(약칭: IGLL) 22, no.22 (2026) : 4-16.
