A game-theoretic account of implicature

Authors:
Prashant Parikh
Affiliations:
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Venue:
TARK '92 Proceedings of the 4th conference on Theoretical aspects of reasoning about knowledge
Year:
1992

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Abstract

I use game theory, decision theory, and situation theory to model a class of implicatures. Two types of relevance are distinguished and used to construct a model of Gricean communication between speaker and addressee.