What’s in a Title? The Nature of Human-AI Interaction in the Titles of Articles of Applied Linguistics Journals

For all their brevity and compactness, journal article titles are quite telling in how the scholars working within a given discipline conceive of certain phenomena and they reflect the emerging trends in how the events in a field play out. To probe into how applied linguists view the various AI-related actors and human agents in the field of AI in Language Education (AILED), ۱۱۲ journal paper titles, published in applied linguistics top journals between ۲۰۲۳ (following the landmark event of the release of Chat-GPT by OpenAI) and ۲۰۲۵, were collected as the data of the present research. To help analyze the data, a mix of content and discourse analytic procedures was applied to them to see what dominant representational patterns might emerge vis-a-vis the nature of the interaction between human and machine agents. It was found that the data reflected a mostly human-centric or collective view of AI technology highlighting an assistive-tool view of its affordances, and that humans were discursively shown to be beneficiaries and even manipulators of the new AI resources. Implications of the study for educator AI literacy are finally considered.

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AI ، applied linguistics ، content analysis ، discourse analysis ، journal articles