The philosophical interpretation of language game theory

IF 2.1 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Nick Zangwill
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I give an informal presentation of the evolutionary game theoretic approach to the conventions that constitute linguistic meaning. The aim is to give a philosophical interpretation of the project, which accounts for the role of game theoretic mathematics in explaining linguistic phenomena. I articulate the main virtue of this sort of account, which is its psychological economy, and I point to the casual mechanisms that are the ground of the application of evolutionary game theory to linguistic phenomena. Lastly, I consider the objection that the account cannot explain predication, logic, and compositionality.
语言博弈论的哲学解释
我非正式地介绍了进化博弈论的方法来研究构成语言意义的惯例。目的是给出一个项目的哲学解释,这说明了博弈论数学在解释语言现象中的作用。我阐明了这种解释的主要优点,即它的心理经济性,我还指出了作为将进化博弈论应用于语言现象的基础的偶然机制。最后,我考虑反对意见,即帐户不能解释预测,逻辑和组合性。
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Journal of Language Evolution
Journal of Language Evolution Social Sciences-Linguistics and Language
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