Are you aware of Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines? He updates structuralist theory for the novel situation of LLMs. Daniel Bashir wrote an excellent review that delves specifically into the dilemma ofanswerability you alluded to above:
It's a really interesting book. As for the question you posed at the end: my own take would be that the perlocutionary has expanded to do the work of the illocutionary, via interpretation and projection.
Are you aware of Leif Weatherby's book Language Machines? He updates structuralist theory for the novel situation of LLMs. Daniel Bashir wrote an excellent review that delves specifically into the dilemma ofanswerability you alluded to above:
https://www.upress.umn.edu/9781517919320/language-machines/
https://thejester.substack.com/p/the-third-yes
Thanks for sharing Chris!
It's a really interesting book. As for the question you posed at the end: my own take would be that the perlocutionary has expanded to do the work of the illocutionary, via interpretation and projection.