Optimal assertions, and what they implicate. A uniform game theoretic approach

Topoi

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 63-78

  Benz, Anton ^a   Van Rooij, Robert ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Conversational implicature; Game theory; Grice; Pragmatics; Signaling games

Indexed keywords

EID: 34248364884     PISSN: 01677411     EISSN: 15728749     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11245-006-9007-3     Document Type: Article

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