Title: The Use of Language (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
Author: Prashant Parikh
Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Inf
Copyright Date: 2001-10-01
ISBN: 1575863545
Type: Paperback
Book condition: Good
Jacket condition: None as issued

Notes: Clean, solid copy with no writing, highlighting, or marks. Softness/fanning to cover and page corner tips. Cover is glossy with scattered surface scratches and dings; small bend on front cover edge. No creases to cover or spine; binding firm. Philosophy/Linguistics/Artificial Intelligence.

About the Book

The Use of Language provides the first game-theoretic account of communication, speaker meaning, and interpretation, and more general types of information flow. The analysis is then extended to conversational implicature and to an new explanation of the Gricean maxims and various important properties of implicature. The book also develops game-theoretic models of illocutionary force, miscommunication, visual representation and visual implicature, and aspects of discourse. Lastly, if offers a new account of visual representation and visual implicature.