TY  - CHAP
A1  - Lentz, Tom
A1  - Blutner, Reinhard
T1  - Signalling games : evolutionary convergence on optimality
T2  - Papers on pragmasemantics / Anton Benz & Reinhard Blutner (ed.)
N2  - Horn's division of pragmatic labour (Horn, 1984) is a universal property of language, and amounts to the pairing of simple meanings to simple forms, and deviant meanings to complex forms. This division makes sense, but a community of language users that do not know it makes sense will still develop it after a while, because it gives optimal communication at minimal costs. This property of the division of pragmatic labour is shown by formalising it and applying it to a simple form of signalling games, which allows computer simulations to corroborate intuitions. The division of pragmatic labour is a stable communicative strategy that a population of communicating agents will converge on, and it cannot be replaced by alternative strategies once it is in place.
KW  - Evolutionstheorie
KW  - Spieltheorie
KW  - Optimalitätstheorie
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/31032
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310325
UR  - http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/783.html
SN  - 1435-9588
SN  - 0947-7055
VL  - 51
SP  - 95
EP  - 110
PB  - Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
CY  - Berlin
ER  -