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Chris Schuck's avatar

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

Jonathan Boymal's avatar

Thanks for sharing Chris!

Chris Schuck's avatar

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.