Game Theory and Linguistic Meaning: 18 - Rilegato

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0080447155 ISBN 13: 9780080447155

Casa editrice: Elsevier Science, 2007

Riassunto

This is the first book to collect research on game-theoretic tools in the analysis of language with particular reference to semantics and pragmatics. Games are significant, because they pertain equally to pragmatics and semantics of natural language. The book provides an overview of the variety of ways in which game theory is used in the analysis of linguistic meaning and shows how games arise in pragmatic as well as semantic investigations. The book is a balanced combination of philosophical, linguistic, logical and mathematical argumentation.

The book has an introductory and a concluding chapter, written by the editor, to give a gentle introduction to the topics covered in the book and to provide wider conclusions and prospects arising from the individual essays.

The major topics covering the field of game theory and linguistic meaning included in the book are:

language games, Wittgenstein
evolutionary language games
communication games, Grice
games of partial information
equilibrium semantics
game-theoretic semantics
logical modelling, generalised quantifiers
the semantics/pragmatics distinction

*International contributions from known leaders in the field
*Part of the Current Research in Semantics/Pragmatics Interface series

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Edited by Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen, University of Helsinki,
Finland

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Contributors

Acknowledgments

1 An Invitation to Language and Games
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

2 Language Games, A Foundation for Semantics and Ontology
John F. Sowa

3 Counterfeiting Truth: Statistical Reporting on the Basis of Trust
David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart

4 From Signals to Symbols: Grounding Language Origins in Communication Games
A´ngel Alonso-Corte´s

5 Evolutionary Games and Social Conventions
Pelle Guldborg Hansen

6 Evolutionary Models of Language
Cecilia Di Chio and Paolo Di Chio

7 Game Dynamics Connects Semantics and Pragmatics
Gerhard J¨ager

8 Building Game-Theoretic Models of Conversations
Jun Miyoshi

9 Situations and Solution Concepts in Game-Theoretic Approaches to Pragmatics
Ian Ross

10 An Introduction to Equilibrium Semantics for Natural Language
Prashant Parikh and Robin Clark

11 Rule Ordering: A Look at Quantifier Scope and Coordination in GTS
Tatjana Scheffler

12 Two Notions of Scope
Gabriel Sandu

13 Semantic Games and Generalised Quantifiers
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

14 Games, Quantifiers and Pronouns
Robin Clark

15 The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction from the Game-Theoretic Point of View
Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen

Index

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Elsevier Science
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0080447155
• ISBN 13: 9780080447155
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 258
• Redattore: Pietarinen Ahti-Veikko