Introduction: Persuasive Language in the Age of AI

Siaw-Fong Chung


Abstract
Persuasive language shapes communication across disciplines and everyday life. As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into these spheres, understanding persuasion now encompasses both human and machine discourse. This introduction examines how persuasive language operates across diverse contexts by analyzing the interactional frameworks of human and AI communication. It also explores how persuasion emerges in human-AI exchanges and how these insights can inform language education and communication practices. Drawing on perspectives from linguistics, computer science, journalism, and communication studies, it presents persuasion as both a rhetorical and interactional process shaped by technology. Ultimately, it aims to deepen understanding of how AI transforms persuasive practices and to promote greater awareness of persuasion in language learning.
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2025.rocling-main.37
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Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025)
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November
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2025
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National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan
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Kai-Wei Chang, Ke-Han Lu, Chih-Kai Yang, Zhi-Rui Tam, Wen-Yu Chang, Chung-Che Wang
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ROCLING
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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342–347
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Siaw-Fong Chung. 2025. Introduction: Persuasive Language in the Age of AI. In Proceedings of the 37th Conference on Computational Linguistics and Speech Processing (ROCLING 2025), pages 342–347, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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