“Why do I flake at the last minute?”: Tenor, self-inquiry, and neoliberal discourses in interactions with LLM chatbots
Discourse Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk
Published online on October 09, 2025
Abstract
Discourse Studies, Ahead of Print.
This paper examines how chatbot-mediated self-inquiry reflects and reproduces neoliberal discourses of emotional regulation and personal responsibility. The study analyses chatbot-mediated self-inquiry sampled from LMSYS-CHAT-1M and WildChat, two large ...
This paper examines how chatbot-mediated self-inquiry reflects and reproduces neoliberal discourses of emotional regulation and personal responsibility. The study analyses chatbot-mediated self-inquiry sampled from LMSYS-CHAT-1M and WildChat, two large ...