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- Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: The MIT Press
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An engaging introduction to the use of game theory to study lingistic meaning.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyirght
- pp. 2-7
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- I. The Social Side of Meaning
- 1. Platonic Heaven
- pp. 3-20
- 2. My Fall from Platonic Heaven
- pp. 21-42
- 3. Meaning and the Social Contract
- pp. 43-60
- II. Games and Truth
- 4. A Primer on Games
- pp. 63-124
- 5. A Game Logic for Natural Language
- pp. 125-178
- III. Games and the World
- 6. Common Knowledge
- pp. 181-214
- 7. Lexical Games
- pp. 215-244
- 8. Two Examples: Pronouns and Politeness
- pp. 245-282
- 9. The Social Ecology of Meaning
- pp. 283-328
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262298742
Related ISBN(s)
9780262016179
MARC Record
OCLC
763204228
Pages
376
Launched on MUSE
2014-01-01
Language
English
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No
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