Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine
Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance
Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust
Luxembourg Centre for Systems Biomedicine
Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
Luxembourg Centre for European Law
Luxembourg Centre for Socio-Environmental Systems
Abstract
The emergence of the digitally enriched lifeworld has seemingly led to the ubiquity of language in all aspects of digitally anchored practices, be it in chatbot applications, social media, or large-scale archives. At the same time, it is evident that digitization, datafication, and economization technologies are in many ways displacing language from its traditional functions in organizing human culture. This includes its medial binding (e.g. in social media), its semiotic quality (e.g. in chatbot applications) and technical representation (e.g. through data processing), but also the political dependence of the presence and pertinence of languages on available ’training data’ and the interests of tech companies, as well as the decoupling of the epistemic content of statements from linguistic performance. These issues will be discussed from a theoretical perspective.
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