Game theory and pragmatics

by Anton Benz

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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 show more use. show less

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Nonfiction, Philosophy
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410.1LanguageLinguisticsLinguisticsPhilosophy and theory
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P138 .G36Language and LiteraturePhilology. LinguisticsLanguage. Linguistic theory. Comparative grammarScience of language (Linguistics)
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