Game Theory and Pragmatics

ANTON BENZ is Assistant Professor of Humanistic Information Science at the University of Southern Denmark, Kolding. His main research interests lie in the field of formal pragmatics and dialogue modelling. GERHARD J GER is Professor of Linguistics at the University of Bielefeld in Germany. He has published on a variety of topics relating to semantics, pragmatics and the mathematics of language. His current focus of interest is the application of evolutionary models to linguistics. ROBERT VAN ROOIJ is a Senior Staff Member of the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (IL

Rooted in Gricean tradition, this book concentrates on game - and decision - theoretic (GDT) approaches to the foundations of pragmatics. Offering a high-level survey of current GDT pragmatics and the field of its applications, this approach provides a basis for synchronic and diachronic explanations of language use.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.