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Language and Equilibrium

Language and Equilibrium

Language and Equilibrium

9780262013451

    Parikh, Prashant

    15-Jan-2010

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""Language and Equilibrium is an extraordinarily ambitious and creative work whose goal is nothing less than a complete rethinking of the nature of linguistic meaning and the relationship between semantics and pragmatics. Starting with the intriguing idea that form-meaning correspondences are established through the delicate balance of the conflicting forces of syntactic, conventional, informational, and flow constraints, Parikh builds a formal model that offers a contextually-sensitive generalization of Fregean compositionality in terms of the fixed point of a game-theoretically defined mapping. Not only a technical tour de force, this work offers a novel perspective on fundamental issues in linguistics and philosophy of language, one which is deeply stimulating and rewards careful study.""--Robert Frank, Yale University

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