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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.
List of contents
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
About the author
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
Summary
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.
