Game Theory and Pragmatics

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.

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