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Game Theory and Pragmatics

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  • © 2006

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Editors:
  1. Anton Benz

    1. University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark

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  2. Gerhard Jäger

    1. University of Bielefeld, Germany

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  3. Robert Rooij

    1. Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. An Introduction to Game Theory for Linguists

    • Anton Benz, Gerhard Jäger, Robert van Rooij
    Pages 1-82

  3. Saying and Meaning, Cheap Talk and Credibility

    • Robert Stalnaker
    Pages 83-100

  4. Pragmatics and Games of Partial Information

    • Prashant Parikh
    Pages 101-122

  5. Game Theory and Communication

    • Nicholas Allott
    Pages 123-152

  6. Different Faces of Risky Speech

    • Robert van Rooij, Merlijn Sevenster
    Pages 153-175

  7. Pragmatic Reasoning, Defaults and Discourse Structure

    • Nicholas Asher, Madison Williams
    Pages 176-194

  8. Utility and Relevance of Answers

    • Anton Benz
    Pages 195-219

  9. Game-Theoretic Grounding

    • Kris de Jaegher
    Pages 220-247

  10. A Game Theoretic Approach to the Pragmatics of Debate: An Expository Note

    • Jacob Glazer, Ariel Rubinstein
    Pages 248-262

  11. On the Evolutionary Dynamics of Meaning-Word Associations

    • Tom Lenaerts, Bart de Vylder
    Pages 263-284

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 285-290
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark

    Anton Benz

  • University of Bielefeld, Germany

    Gerhard Jäger

  • Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Robert Rooij

About the editors

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

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