Language, Games, and Evolution: Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory / Edition 1

Language, Games, and Evolution: Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
3642180051
ISBN-13:
9783642180057
Pub. Date:
05/03/2011
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN-10:
3642180051
ISBN-13:
9783642180057
Pub. Date:
05/03/2011
Publisher:
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Language, Games, and Evolution: Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory / Edition 1

Language, Games, and Evolution: Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory / Edition 1

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Overview

Recent years witnessed an increased interest in formal pragmatics and especially the establishment of game theory as a new research methodology for the study of language use. Game and Decision Theory (GDT) are natural candidates if we look for a theoretical foundation of linguistic pragmatics. Over the last decade, a firm research community has emerged with a strong interdisciplinary character, where economists, philosophers, and social scientists meet with linguists. Within this field of research, three major currents can be distinguished: one is closely related to the Gricean paradigm and aims at a precise foundation of pragmatic reasoning, the second originates in the economic literature and is concerned with the role of game theory in the context of language use, and the third aims at language evolution seen either from a biological or from a cultural perspective. Edited in collaboration with FoLLI, the Association of Logic, Language and Information, this volume is based on a selection of papers of two international conferences, one organised at ESSLLI in 2007 on language, games, and evolution, and the other organised at the ZAS in Berlin on games and decisions in pragmatics in 2008. This volume is rounded off by additional invited papers and now contains eight articles of leading researchers in the field which together provide a state-of-the-art survey of current research on language evolution and game theoretic approaches to pragmatics.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783642180057
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date: 05/03/2011
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science , #6207
Edition description: 2011
Pages: 189
Product dimensions: 0.00(w) x 0.00(h) x 0.02(d)

Table of Contents

Language, Games, and Evolution

Language, Games, and Evolution: An Introduction Anton Benz Christian Ebert Gerhard Jäger Robert van Rooij 1

Part I Non-evolutionary Approaches: Synchronic Phenomena

How to Set Up Normal Optimal Answer Models Anton Benz 14

Strategic Vagueness, and Appropriate Contexts Kris de Jaegher Robert van Rooij 40

Now That You Mention It: Awareness Dynamics in Discourse and Decisions Michael Franke Tikitu de Jager 60

The Role of Speaker Beliefs in Determining Accent Placement James German Eyal Sagi Stefan Kaufmann Brady Clark 92

Part II Evolutionary Approaches: Diachronic Phenomena

Evolutionarily Stable Communication and Pragmatics Thomas C. Scott-Phillips 117

Simulating Grice: Emergent Pragmatics in Spatialized Game Theory Patrick Grim 134

Signaling Games: Dynamics of Evolution and Learning Simon M. Huttegger Kevin J.S. Zollman 160

Pragmatics, Logic and Information Processing Brian Skyrms 177

Author Index 189

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