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Language, Games, and Evolution - Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory (Paperback, Edition.)
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Language, Games, and Evolution - Trends in Current Research on Language and Game Theory (Paperback, Edition.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6207
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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.
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