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.
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 |
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 |