Language & Strategy: Andreas Blume
Event Information
- Presentations: September 3, 8, and 11, 2008
- Breakfast: Economic Science Lab: September 5, 2008
Presenter Information
Schedule
1. Wed. Sept. 3, 3.30-5.30, McClelland 401KK: Language & Strategy, Part 1.
Refreshments served in the middle.
2. Mon. Sept. 8, 3.30-5.30, McC 401KK: Language & Strategy, Part 2.
Refreshments served in the middle.
3. Thu. Sept. 11, 3.30-5.00, McC 401KK: Language & Strategy, Part 3 - "Intentional Vagueness" (a self-contained seminar on one paper).
Refreshments served at end.
Presentation Slides
Lecture 3 - corrected 9/08/08
Reading Lists
View Reading List in PDF format or scroll down to access specific papers:
I.a Strategic Information Transmission
F Crawford, V.P. and J. Sobel [1982], "Strategic Information Transmission,"
Econometrica 50, 1431-1451. (Download here)
Lewis, D. [1969], Convention: A Philosophical Study, Harvard University Press. (Link to Google book search)
Farrell, J. [1993], "Meaning and Credibility in Cheap-Talk Games," Games and Economic Behavior, 5, 514-531. (Download here)
I.b Communicating Information with Natural Language
Grice, H. Paul [1975], "Logic and Conversation," Syntax and Semantics, vol.
3, Peter Cole and Jerry L. Morgan, eds., New York: Academic Press.
F Pinker, Steven, Martin A. Nowak & James J. Lee [2008], "The Logic of Indirect Speech," Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105, 833-38. (Download here)
Nowak, Martin A., David C. Krakauer and Andreas Dress [1999]: "An Error Limit for the Evolution of Language," Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 266, 2131-2136. (Download here)
F Lipman, Barton L. [2006], "Why is Language Vague?," manuscript, Boston University (Download here)
Jaeger, Gerhard [2008]: "Applications of Game Theory in Linguistics,"
Language and Linguistics Compass 2, 1-16. (Download here)
Jaeger, Gerhard [2008]: "Game Theory in Semantics and Pragmatics,"
Universitaet Bielefeld Working Paper. (Download here)
II. Communication Errors
F Myerson, R.B. [1991], Game Theory: Analysis of Conflict, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts. (pages 285 - 288)
F Blume, A., O.J. Board, and K. Kawamura [2007], "Noisy Talk," Theoretical Economics 2, 395-440. (Download here)
Goltsman, M., J. Hörner, G. Pavlov and F. Squintani [2007], "Mediation, Arbitration and Negotiation", Working Paper. (Download here)
III. Intentional Vagueness
F Blume, A. and O.J. Board [2008], "Intentional Vagueness," in progress (Download here)
Related Activities
ESL Breakfast
Friday Sept. 5, 08.30 AM in the ESL (McClelland 111-112)
Speaker: Andreas Blume (University of Pittsburgh, Economics)
Topic: Lost in Translation: A Mediated Communication Experiment
Format: 30 minute talk, 30 minute discussion
For more information, view
upcoming Department of Economics seminars,
or please contact
us.
For more information, view upcoming Department of Economics seminars, or please contact us.
