AI tools like ChatGPT reshape discourse analysis by simulating diverse discourse types and identifying linguistic patterns at scale. They enable faster, data-driven insights into coherence, pragmatics, and interactional structures.
I am not really versed in AI even though I am a cognitive scientist. I don't think that ChatGPT will revolutionize DA. AI enables the simulation, among other things, of human speech by feeding AI systems with enough knowledge for AI speakers to produce new discourse. In my sense, this generated discourse will enable analysts to catalogue its features and compare/contrast them with those of previously analyzed naturally-occurring discourse (NLP). However, we will see if AI generated discourse will reshape DA, which I will call non-natural language processing (NNLP).