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Limbajul, între libertate creatoare și constrângere formală: competență umană versus simulare algoritmică
Language, Between Creative Freedom and Formal Constraint: Human Competence versus Algorithmic Simulation

Author(s): Monica Geanina Coca
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: freedom; determination; frame; journalistic text; artificial intelligence;

Summary/Abstract: The paper examines how freedom manifests itself in the construction of meaning in the case of human competence, in opposition to algorithmic language simulation (AI). Starting from the distinctions proposed by Eugenio Coșeriu in the essay “Determination and Framework”, regarding the operations of determination (actualization, discrimination, delimitation, identification) and the types of framework (situation, region, context, universe of speech), two ways of producing language were comparatively analyzed: as a creative, subjective, intentional, responsible activity, anchored in a linguistic consciousness, and as algorithmic generation, functionally limited in terms of appealing to the possibilities of the system. The comparison between a journalistic article authored by Ioan F. Pop and a text generated by AI, mapped onto Coșeriu’s framework, revealed that only the presence of the human subject activates freedom as understood in Coșeriu’s sense, fully exploiting the potential of the linguistic system.

  • Issue Year: XLVII/2025
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 201-210
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian
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