Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory

Index

Index Abélard, Peter, 128 129 Abélard and Eloı̈se. See Verifier and falsifier Accommodation, 206 207, 213 and common knowledge, 211 and coordination, 210 and game theoretic semantics, 209, 210 and presupposition, 204 211 and social conventions, 207 Accusative. See Case marking Action and rational choice, 68 Agent based modeling, 323 326 Allegory of the Cave, 28 30, 42 Altruism, 118 Ambiguity, 215, 315 and coordination, 218 and expected utility, 228 229 and objective probability, 238 and semantic hierarchies, 309 311 and subjective probability, 229 231 Appropriateness conditions, 284, 287 Appropriateness of usage. See Appropriateness conditions Aristotelian definition, 327 and set extensions, 284, 285 and vagueness, 286 Aristotelian Square of Opposition, 150 153 and contradictories, 153 and contraries, 153 and entailment, 153 and subcontraries, 153 and syllogisms, 150 Arms race, 102 Armstrong, S., 288 289, 327 Assurance games, 330 Atomic sentences. See also Game theoretic semantics and truth definitions, 139 Attractors, 118 and evolutionary game theory, 118 Austin, J. L., xiii, 59, 287, 328 Axelrod, R., 96, 123 Bach or Stravinsky. See Game, Hobo Dinner Backward induction (rollback), 75 Bardsley, N., 327 Barwise, J., 19, 42, 148, 177, 178, 181 Basic level terms, 312 Battle of the sexes. See Game, Hobo Dinner Beauty contest game, 192 and bounded rationality, 192 193 Beaver, D., 213 Belnap, N., 18 Benz. A., 122 Bever, T., 243 Binmore, K., 122 Blackburn, S., 18 Borel, É., 122 Bostock, D., 42 Bound pronouns, 161 162. See also Game theoretic semantics Bounded rationality, 191, 212 and common knowledge, 191 Bourdieu, P., 189 Boyd, R., 123 Breheny, R., 280 Britton, B., 320 Brown, P., 40, 267, 268, 274, 277, 278, 281, 331 Bryan, M., 52 Bundy, M., 65 Cake game, 69 75 Camerer, C., 193, 212 Carlson, L., 177 Carnap, R., 40 Carroll, L., 43 Carrying capacity and competition, 304 and lexical competition, 305 Case marking accusative system, 113 ergative system, 113 and evolutionary game theory, 112 118 split ergative, 117 Categorization and prototype theory, 291 Category resemblance, 311 312 Centering theory, 280 and prominence hierarchy, 253 Central tendency and prototype theory, 289 290, 292 Cheap talk systems, 189 Chicken game and evolutionary game theory, 109 110 Chinese room, 36 38, 42 Choice functions, 168 and best response, 168 Chomsky, N., 40 CHRISTINE corpus, 116 Clark, H., 183, 184, 187, 194, 197, 198, 209, 212 Clark, R., 19, 178, 242, 243 245, 247, 252, 280, 380 Clinton, W., 88 Cognitive economy and prototype theory, 287 Common knowledge, 46 50, 266 and community membership, 194 195 and game theory, 49 and public information, 181 sources of, 198 Communication backchannel, 204 211 and bounded rationality, 204 and tacit bargaining, 295 Communicative economy, 246 Competition coe‰cients, 304 Competition model, 303 306 Completeness, 33 34 Compositionality, 15, 19 and game theoretic semantics, 174 and grammar, 23 25 and Mentalese, 16 18 Computational theory of mind, 26 27 Concepts, 10, 11, 289, 327 and essentialism, 11 and informational categories, 10 11 and number sense, 12 and social behavior, 301 Conditioned linguistic rule, 89 Consequences (of action), 68 Consistency, 33 34 Context Free Phrase Structure Grammar (CFPSG), 21 23 Contradictories. See Aristotelian Square of Opposition Contraries. See Aristotelian Square of Opposition Conventions, 236 evolution of, 123 Conversational implicature. See Implicature Conversational maxims, 224, 245, 265, 268, 276 and face, 273 and games of partial information, 264 manner, 223 quantity, 223 224 and utility, 225 Cooperation, 330 evolution of, 97 98, 278 and linguistic conventions, 97 and linguistic meaning, 177 346 Index Cooperative principle, 223 Coordinated attack, 182 183, 212 and common knowledge, 183 Coordination. See also Coordination game and focal points, 295 296 Coordination game, 89 105, 326 and mixed strategy, 91 92 and reference, 92 and signaling, 90 and vagueness, 300 Copresence indirect, 197 198 linguistic, 195 197 physical, 195 Correspondence theory of meaning, 176 Costs and language production, 252 Cowie, F., 18 Crain, S., 243 Cratylus, 14 16 Cue validity, 311 312, 328 Dahl, Ö, 116 Davidson, D., 18 Definite descriptions, 183 184, 213 and expected utility, 232 234 and games of partial information, 232 234 and mutual knowledge, 184 191 and presupposition, 205 206 Russellian treatment of, 205 and strategic decision making, 248 250 Dehaene, S., 19 Dirty frat boy problem, 46 48 and rationality, 192 sources of, 59 Discourse anaphora, 152, 245 and contrastive stress, 261 and games of partial information, 245 263 and game theoretic semantics, 246 and multiple...