Emotional appeal in ChatGPT prompts: A study of L2 speakers’ perceptions
Emotional appeal in ChatGPT prompts: A study of L2 speakers’ perceptions
Author(s): Iryna Morozova, Valeriia NikolaienkoSubject(s): Media studies, Social psychology and group interaction, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Polskie Towarzystwo Retoryczne
Keywords: ChatGPT; intersubjectivity; human-computer interaction; conversational AI; emotional prompting;
Summary/Abstract: This article investigates the rhetorical means used by EFL university students in interactions with ChatGPT with emotional prompts.It has been found that most participants do not construe the interaction with the bot as a traditional communicative situation, and donot frame the bot as a humanlike agent. However, after being prompted to use emotional appeal, the participants mapped the featuresof human-human communicative situation without mapping the perception of the interlocutor as a human being.
Journal: Res Rhetorica
- Issue Year: 11/2024
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 155-174
- Page Count: 20
- Language: English
