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From Alignment to Drift: Interactional Dynamics of Epistemic Stabilization in Bengali Human–AI Conversations
Sibansu Mukherjee1
1 West Bengal Emerging Technology Society, Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
Published Online: May-August 2026
Pages: 291-317
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↗ https://www.doi.org/10.59256/indjcst.20260502034References
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In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp. 610–623). Association for Computing
Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442188.3445922
2. Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (1987). Politeness: Some universals in language usage. Cambridge University Press.
3. Crawford, K. (2021). Atlas of AI: Power, politics, and the planetary costs of artificial intelligence. Yale University Press.
4. Floridi, L. (2014). The fourth revolution: How the infosphere is reshaping human reality. Oxford University Press.
5. Goffman, E. (1981). Forms of talk. University of Pennsylvania Press.
6. Heritage, J. (1984). Garfinkel and ethnomethodology. Polity Press.
7. Hutchby, I. (2001). Conversation and technology: From the telephone to the internet. Polity Press.
8. Reeves, B., & Nass, C. (1996). The media equation: How people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places. CSLI
Publications.
9. Sacks, H., Schegloff, E. A., & Jefferson, G. (1974). A simplest systematics for the organization of turn-taking for conversation. Language,
50(4), 696–735. https://doi.org/10.2307/412243
10. Seaver, N. (2019). Captivating algorithms: Recommender systems as traps. Journal of Material Culture, 24(4), 421–436.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1359183518820366
11. Sharma, A., Lin, I. W., Miner, A. S., Atkins, D. C., & Althoff, T. (2023). Towards understanding sycophancy in language models. arXiv
preprint arXiv:2310.13548. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2310.13548
12. Silverstein, M. (1976). Shifters, linguistic categories, and cultural description. In K. H. Basso & H. A. Selby (Eds.), Meaning in anthropology
(pp. 11–55). University of New Mexico Press.
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