Roles and Relationships

Joris Hulstijn

doi:10.1007/978-981-96-5290-7_8

Roles and Relationships

Joris Hulstijn^*

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Abstract

This chapter defines the notion of social roles and role relationships as well as interaction roles (speaker, addressee) at various levels (utterance, dialog, social relationship). Roles are part of a script or frame, which can be formalized as a dialog game. Roles are played by specific agents, but only if they qualify. Given a role, it is clear what the expertise, responsibilities, norms, and powers are of an agent who has adopted that role. We specifically analyze the roles of the explainer and explainee in an interactive everyday explanation dialog (explication).

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Explainable AI
Editors	K.J. Rohlfing, K. Främling, B. Lim, S. Alpsancar, K. Thommes
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publisher	Springer
Pages	141-156
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Electronic)	978-981-96-5290-7
ISBN (Print)	978-981-96-5289-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-5290-7_8
Publication status	Published - 19 Mar 2026

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social explainable AI
roles
dialogue

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