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Synthetic Linguistic Agency: How an Embodied Mortal Agent Learns Linguistic Affordances through Consequential Social Experience

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 28, 2026 · UTC

Contemporary language models can converse fluently and influence human decisions, yet their exchanges do not enter a continuing, vulnerable life of their own. Linguistic-agency theory identifies this missing connection as linguistic agency and characterizes it through embodiment, linguistic participation, and precariousness: a body that acts and bears consequences, interaction that changes both agent and partner, and a future that can be sustained or lost. Two coordinated studies examine how this organization can appear in artificial systems. First, we translate these relations into inspectabl

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