{"id":2196,"date":"2011-02-14T05:00:58","date_gmt":"2011-02-14T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whamit.mit.edu\/?p=2196"},"modified":"2011-02-12T16:57:44","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T21:57:44","slug":"linguistics-colloquium-218-gerhard-jager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/2011\/02\/14\/linguistics-colloquium-218-gerhard-jager\/","title":{"rendered":"Linguistics Colloquium 2\/18 - Gerhard J\u00e4ger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Gerhard J\u00e4ger, Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen<br clear='none'\/>\nTime: Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:30pm-5pm<br clear='none'\/>\nLocation: 32-141 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM)<br clear='none'\/>\nTitle: Game Theoretic Pragmatics<\/p>\n<p>Abstract:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Game theory is a mathematical framework that is being used in economics and biology,<br clear='none'\/>\nbut also in philosophy, political science and computer science, to study the behavior of<br clear='none'\/>\nmultiple agents that are engaged in strategic interaction. It has manifold applications<br clear='none'\/>\nin linguistics as well. In particular, it has been utilized to investigate stability<br clear='none'\/>\nconditions of linguistic features in a large speech community, and to explore the<br clear='none'\/>\nstrategic aspects of single speech acts.<\/p>\n<p>The talk gives an introduction into a particular incarnation of this<br clear='none'\/>\nresearch paradigm, the \/Iterated Best Response model\/ of game-theoretic<br clear='none'\/>\npragmatics. It can be seen as a formalization of the neo-Gricean program of<br clear='none'\/>\npragmatics. Empirical issues touched upon include exhaustivication, free choice<br clear='none'\/>\nreadings, ignorance implicatures, embedded implicatures and the pragmatics of measure<br clear='none'\/>\nterms.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker: Gerhard J\u00e4ger, Universit\u00e4t T\u00fcbingen Time: Friday, February 18, 2011, 3:30pm-5pm Location: 32-141 (PLEASE NOTE ROOM) Title: Game Theoretic Pragmatics Abstract: Game theory is a mathematical framework that is being used in economics and biology, but also in philosophy, political science and computer science, to study the behavior of multiple agents that are engaged in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2196"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2207,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2196\/revisions\/2207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling-phil.mit.edu\/whamit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}