
Game Theory and Pragmatics
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 1. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
VIII, 290 pages
978-1-349-52317-7 (ISBN)
Description
Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game- and decision-theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. An Introduction to GDT, with an overview of GDT pragmatics research to date and its relation to semantics and to Gricean pragmatics is followed by contributions offering a high-level survey of current GDT pragmatics and the field of its applications, demonstrating that this approach provides a sound basis for synchronic and diachronic explanations of language use.
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Series
Edition
1st ed. 2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
VIII, 290 p.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
380 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-349-52317-7 (9781349523177)
DOI
10.1057/9780230285897
Schweitzer Classification
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A. Benz | G. Jäger | R. Van Rooij
Game Theory and Pragmatics
Book
11/2005
Palgrave Macmillan
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Persons
NICHOLAS ALLOTT, University College London, UK
NICHOLAS ASHER, University of Texas, Austin, USA
KRIS DE JAEGHER, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
BART DE VYLDER, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
JACOB GLAZER, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and Boston University, USA
TOM LENAERTS, Free University of Brussels, Belgium
PRASHANT PARIKH, University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, USA
ARIEL RUBINSTEIN, Tel Aviv University, Israel, and New York University, USA
MERLIJN SEVENSTER, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ROBERT STALNAKER, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
MADISON WILLIAMS, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Content
Introduction; A.Benz, G.Jäger & R.van Rooij Saying and Meaning, Cheap Talk and Credibility; R.Stalnaker Pragmatics and Games of Partial Information; P.Parikh Game Theory and Communication; N.Allott Different Faces of Risky Speech; R.van Rooij & M.Sevenster Pragmatic Reasoning, Defaults and Discourse Structure; N.Asher & M.Williams Utility and Relevance of Answers; A.Benz Game Theoretic Grounding; K.de Jaegher A Game Theoretic Approach to the Pragmatics of Debates: An Expository Note; J.Glazer & A.Rubinstein On the Evolutionary Dynamics of Meaning/Word Associations; T.Lenaerts & B.de Vylder