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Publication details [#39462]

Rooy, Robert Van. 2004. Signalling Games Select Horn Strategies. Linguistics and Philosophy 27 (4) : 493–527.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

game theory | interpretation | language use | markedness | pragmatics

Journal WWW

www.kluweronline.com/

Annotation

This article explains why (un) marked expressions typically get an (un)marked interpretation (cfr. Horn's division of pragmatic labor), by using Lewis's (1969) equilibria of signalling games in an evolutionary setting.