Meaningful Games: Exploring Language with Game Theory

by Robin Clark

Book Overview

An engaging introduction to the use of game theory to study lingistic meaning.

In Meaningful Games, Robin Clark explains in an accessible manner the usefulness of game theory in thinking about a wide range of issues in linguistics. Clark argues that we use grammar strategically to signal our intended meanings: our choices as speaker are conditioned by what choices the hearer will make interpreting what we say. Game theory--according...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262016176
• ISBN13: 9780262016179
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher