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| Publication date |
2003
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| Host editors |
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| Book title |
Proceedings of the 9th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge
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| Book subtitle |
TARK 2003, University of Indiana, Indiana, June 20-22, 2003
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| ISBN |
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| Event |
9th Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge, TARK 2003
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| Pages (from-to) |
45-58
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| Publisher |
New York: Association for Computing Machinery
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| Organisations |
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Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
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| Abstract |
In this paper I argue for a broad game theoretical perspective on language use. Polite linguistic behavior, in particular, should be taken as rational interaction of conversational partners that each come with their own beliefs and preferences. I argue that the function of making a request in a polite way is to turn a situation in which preferences are not well aligned to one where they are by assuming that to utter polite expressions is costly. This idea will be formalized by making use of Lewisean signaling games and the biological handicap principle.
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| Document type |
Conference contribution
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| Note |
pagina's,. uitgever? plaats?
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| Language |
English
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| Published at |
https://doi.org/10.1145/846241.846248
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