The Words of Robotics

From Movement Perception to Natural Language

Céline Pieters

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 March 2025

Semantics; Communication studies; Social & cultural anthropology

The Words of Robotics addresses how the way we “tell” stories about robots cannot be reduced to a strictly logical discourse, but must involve the rhetorical aspects of “ethos” and “pathos.” The author focuses on the aspect of motion in order to analyze the relation between humans and robots, and show the opportunities and pitfalls of the popularization of academic discourses in using a rhetorical approach to talk about robots. This approach allows one to go beyond the reductionisms of either overstating the abilities and power of the robots or reducing the discourse to a specialized, mere technical language.

By: Céline Pieters
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
ISBN: 9781666946949
ISBN 10: 166694694X
Pages: 110
Publication Date: 15 March 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: Rhetoric, Robotics, and What They Have in Common Chapter 2: From Movement Perception to Natural Language Chapter 3: Is the Vocabulary of Robotics Ambiguous? Chapter 4: Beyond the Words

Céline M. Pieters is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna.