Game Theory and Pragmatics

ISBN-13:	9781403945723
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	11/01/2005
Series:	Palgrave Studies in Pragmatics, Language and Cognition
Edition description:	2006
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.03(d)

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.