ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0453-2445
(2023):
The rejection game.
In: Mind & Language
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Abstract
We introduce the rejection game, designed to formalize the interaction between interlocutors in a Stalnakerian conversation: a speaker who asserts something and a listener who may accept or reject. The rejection game is similar to other signalling games known to the literature in economics and biology. We point out similarities and differences, and propose an application in linguistics. We uncover basic conditions under which the Gricean maxim of quality emerges from incentives among the players, providing evidence for a functionalist understanding of the Gricean program.
Item Type: | Journal article |
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Faculties: | Philosophy, Philosophy of Science and Religious Science > Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy (MCMP) |
Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and Psychology > 100 Philosophy |
URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-108908-3 |
ISSN: | 0268-1064 |
Language: | English |
Item ID: | 108908 |
Date Deposited: | 19. Mar 2024, 09:14 |
Last Modified: | 19. Mar 2024, 09:14 |