Paper ID: 2411.18403

Politicians vs ChatGPT. A study of presuppositions in French and Italian political communication

Davide Garassino, Vivana Masia, Nicola Brocca, Alice Delorme Benites

This paper aims to provide a comparison between texts produced by French and Italian politicians on polarizing issues, such as immigration and the European Union, and their chatbot counterparts created with ChatGPT 3.5. In this study, we focus on implicit communication, in particular on presuppositions and their functions in discourse, which have been considered in the literature as a potential linguistic feature of manipulation. This study also aims to contribute to the emerging literature on the pragmatic competences of Large Language Models.

Submitted: Nov 27, 2024