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.
Author Biography:
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