Risky speech: Behavioral game theory and pragmatics

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1223-1245

  Sally, David ^a  

^a The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management   (United States)

Author keywords

Coordination; Game theory; Implicitness; Payoff risk; Relevance; Salience

Indexed keywords

EID: 0012643472     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00170-4     Document Type: Article

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