Call for Book Chapters: Edited Volume on Human-AI Interaction Discourse and Interactional Perspectives

Dear All,

We are pleased to invite abstract submissions for a proposed edited book, Human-AI Interaction: Discourse and Interactional Perspectives. For more details, please refer to the attached Call for Chapters or the online version available at: https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/al/people/y-li/call-for-chapters-human-ai-interaction-discourse-and-interactional-perspectives.pdf

This volume seeks to articulate current knowledge and emerging research agendas in the study of human-AI interaction, while illustrating how socially situated approaches to language, discourse, and interaction can be used as methodological frameworks for its investigation. We're looking for empirical studies of human-AI interaction (in any of its many forms) which draw on some form(s) of discourse analysis - interactional sociolinguistics, corpus linguistics, critical discourse analysis, conversation analysis, etc.

Please send an abstract in a Word document (max. 500 words, references excluded) by 1 March 2026 to Yanyan Li (Yanyan.Li.1@warwick.ac.uk) and Adam Brandt (adam.brandt@newcastle.ac.uk), using the email subject ‘Human-AI interaction book chapter proposal’. We aim to send notifications of acceptance by 3 April 2026.

The abstract should include a title, a clear explanation of how ‘human-AI interaction’ is defined in the study, the interactional method(s) and dataset used, analytic findings, implications for AI design (where relevant), and references (APA7 referencing style). Please also include a short bio (max. 50 words) for each author.

We are in discussions with Routledge regarding this potential book project. The publisher has invited the submission of a proposal, which will be subject to formal review. Please note that acceptance of your abstract does not guarantee acceptance of your full chapter.

If you're working in this area and might be interested in contributing a chapter to this proposed book, please do consider submitting an abstract for consideration. Or please get in touch with Adam or Yanyan if you'd like to discuss.

We would appreciate it if you could also share this call with colleagues or networks who may be interested. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

Warm regards,

Dr Yanyan Li, University of Warwick (UK)

Dr Adam Brandt, Newcastle University (UK)

Professor Tony Liddicoat, University of Warwick (UK)