Cover -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 An Invitation to Language and Games -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 TAKING GAMES SERIOUSLY -- 3 CONSEQUENCES FOR LANGUAGE THEORY -- 4 OVERVIEW -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 Language Games, A Foundation for Semantics and Ontology -- 1 THE INFINITE FLEXIBILITY OF NATURAL LANGUAGES -- 2 WITTGENSTEIN'S ALTERNATIVE -- 3 MODELS OF LANGUAGE -- 4 SEMANTIC REPRESENTATIONS -- 5 A WlTTGENSTEINIAN APPROACH TO LANGUAGE -- 6 LANGUAGE GAMES AS A BASIS FOR SEMANTICS -- 7 LANGUAGE, LOGIC, AND LEBENSFORM -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 Counterfeiting Truth: Statistical Reporting on the Basis of Trust -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ADAM SMITH ON DECEIT -- 3 WHAT DOES THE ECONOMIST WANT? -- 4 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4 From Signals to Symbols: Grounding Language Origins in Communication Games -- 1 ADAM SMITH'S DOG -- 2 GAMES AND SYMBOLS -- 3 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5 Evolutionary Games and Social Conventions -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 SOCIAL CONVENTIONS -- 3 LEWIS' THEORY OF CONVENTION -- 4 THE PROBLEM OF SALIENCE -- 5 PRECEDENT AND COORDINATION -- 6 THE EVOLUTIONARY TURN AND THE THEORY OF CONVENTION -- 7 EVOLUTIONARY GAMES AND CONVENTIONS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 Evolutionary Models of Language -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- 3 THE STATE OF THE ART -- 4 SIMULATION MODELS -- 5 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7 Game Dynamics Connects Semantics and Pragmatics -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 EVOLUTIONARY GAME THEORY -- 3 FROM SEMANTICS TO PRAGMATICS -- 4 IMPLICATURES -- 5 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX -- Chapter 8 Building Game-Theoretic Models of Conversations -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 ACTION, TREE AND PATH IN CONVERSATION -- 3 A GENERAL MODEL -- 4 A MORE REALISTIC MODEL -- 5 EVALUATION: THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE MODELS -- 6 CONCLUSION.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 9 Situations and Solution Concepts in Game-Theoretic Approaches to Pragmatics -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 DATA -- 3 DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BIOT AND GPIS -- 4 MAPPING BETWEEN BIOT TABLEAUS AND GPIS -- 5 CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 10 An Introduction to Equilibrium Semantics for Natural Language -- 1 SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS -- 2 AN EXAMPLE -- 3 SITUATION THEORY -- 4 THE FOUR CONSTRAINTS -- 5 EQUILIBRIUM SEMANTICS: SCIF -- 6 CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 11 Rule Ordering: A Look at Quantifier Scope and Coordination in GTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 GAME-THEORETICAL SEMANTICS -- 3 QUANTIFIER SCOPE AMBIGUITY -- 4 INVERSE LINKING -- 5 THE NATURE OF ORDERING PRINCIPLES -- 6 COORDINATION -- 7 CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 12 Two Notions of Scope -- 1 TWO NOTIONS OF SCOPE -- 2 TWO ATTEMPTS IN GAME-THEORETICAL SEMANTICS -- 3 DISCOURSE REPRESENTATION THEORY (DRT) -- 4 DYNAMIC PREDICATE LOGIC (DPL) -- 5 GAME-THEORETICAL SEMANTICS FOR FORMAL LANGUAGES -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 13 Semantic Games and Generalised Quantifiers -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- 2 GTS FOR NATURAL LANGUAGE -- 3 DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS -- 4 RELATIONAL SEMANTICS -- 5 GAME RULES FOR GENERALISED QUANTIFIERS -- 6 CONTEXT DEPENDENCE AND BRANCHING -- 7 CONCLUSIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX: PEIRCE ON GENERALISED QUANTIFICATION -- Chapter 14 Games, Quantifiers and Pronouns -- 1 OVERVIEW -- 2 BASIC QUANTIFIERS -- 3 GAME THEORY AND DISCOURSE ANAPHORA -- 4 CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 15 The Semantics/Pragmatics Distinction from the Game-Theoretic Point of View -- 1 ASSUMPTIONS -- 2 ANALYSIS -- 3 CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- Index.