The notion of authenticity in hybrid human/AI productions

Robert Butler is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at The University of Lorraine, Nancy. His research interests include cognitive linguistics and multimodality, primarily in the political sphere. He is the editor of the volume Political Discourse Analysis: Legitimisation Strategies in Crisis and Conflict published in 2024 by Edinburgh University Press, and he will be the guest editor of a special issue in Multimodality & Society to appear in 2025. He also has a forthcoming chapter entitled ‘“Can I just finish?” The interplay between modality and force dynamics in strategies for holding the floor in political discourse’ which will be published in an edited volume in 2025. He teaches cohesion and information packaging to third-year undergraduates and as of 2024 has been teaching Cognitive Linguistics and Critical Discourse Studies to Masters students in M1 and M2.

Sophia Burnett is a post-doctoral teaching and research fellow at the Université de Lorraine, affiliated with the IDEA research centre in Nancy. Her research focuses on anthropological and cognitive linguistics, notably intersections of morphosyntax, graphophonology, semiotics, and embodiment. She holds a PhD in language sciences from CY Cergy Paris, and is an associate member of the AGORA research centre. She has presented first-authored papers at ILA (Rutgers) NWAV (Queens), HisPhonCog (Hanyang), LingColl (Zurich), and several other peer-reviewed conferences. With Anna Cardinaletti, she is developing an EU proposal in Embodied Syntax and Intersubjectivity in Multilingual Ecologies. Since 2024 she leads the Human Inside project, a multilingual open science project that analyses human/LLM productions to better understand humans' writing strategies. Personal site.

Julia Brennstuhl is a second-year master's student in Applied Foreign Languages (LEA), specialised in Translation Technologies, at the Université de Lorraine and is currently an intern at the IDEA research centre as part of the ORION program. Specialised in English and Spanish, she is interested in linguistic dynamics and plans to pursue a PhD in sociolinguistics. Her studies in LEA have enabled her to develop skills in linguistic analysis, translation, and intercultural communication. Curious and motivated, she aspires to contribute to research on neologisms in the context of the climate crisis and to actively engage in the academic field.