Signalling games : evolutionary convergence on optimality
- 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.
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| Author: | Tom Lentz, Reinhard Blutner |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-310325 |
| URL: | http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/783.html |
| ISSN: | 1435-9588 |
| ISSN: | 0947-7055 |
| Parent Title (English): | Papers on pragmasemantics / Anton Benz & Reinhard Blutner (ed.) |
| Publisher: | Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft |
| Place of publication: | Berlin |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2009 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2009 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2013/11/14 |
| GND Keyword: | Evolutionstheorie; Spieltheorie; Optimalitätstheorie |
| Volume: | 51 |
| Page Number: | 16 |
| First Page: | 95 |
| Last Page: | 110 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 381130169 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik |
| Sammlungen: | Linguistik |
| Linguistik-Klassifikation: | Linguistik-Klassifikation: Pragmalinguistik/Kommunikationsforschung / Pragmalinguistics/Communication research |
| Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte: | ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 51 = Papers on pragmasemantics |
| : | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306949 |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
