Author	Hintikka, Jaakko. author
Title	The Game of Language [electronic resource] : Studies in Game-Theoretical Semantics and Its Applications / by Jaakko Hintikka
Imprint	Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1983
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9847-2
Descript	356 p. online resource

Since the first chapter of this book presents an introยญ duction to the present state of game-theoretical semantics (GTS), there is no point in giving a briefer survey here. Instead, it may be helpful to indicate what this volume attempts to do. The first chapter gives a short introยญ duction to GTS and a survey of what is has accomplished. Chapter 2 puts the enterprise of GTS into new philoยญ sophical perspective by relating its basic ideas to Kant's phi losophy of mathematics, space, and time. Chapters 3-6 are samples of GTS's accomplishments in understanding different kinds of semantical phenomena, mostly in natural languages. Beyond presenting results, some of these chapters also have other aims. Chapter 3 relates GTS to an interesting line of logical and foundational studies - the so-called functional interpretations - while chapter 4 leads to certain important methodological theses. Chapter 7 marks an application of GTS in a more philoยญ sophical direction by criticizing the Frege-Russell thesis that words like "is" are multiply ambiguous. This leads in turn to a criticism of recent logical languages (logical notation), which since Frege have been based on the ambiยญ guity thesis, and also to certain methodological sugยญ gestions. In chapter 8, GTS is shown to have important implications for our understanding of Aristotle's doctrine of categories, while chapter 9 continues my earlier criticism of Chomsky's generative approach to linguistic theorizing

1 / Game-Theoretical Semantics: Insights and Prospects -- 2 / Semantical Games and Transcendental Arguments -- 3 / Semantical Games, Subgames, and Functional Interpretations -- 4 / Any Problems โ No Problems -- 5 / Temporal Discourse and Semantical Games -- 6 / Definite Descriptions in Game-Theoretical Semantics -- 7 / โIsโ, Semantical Games, and Semantical Relativity -- 8 / Semantical Games and Aristotelian Categories -- 9 / On the Any-Thesis and the Methodology of Linguistics -- 10 / Theories of Truth and Learnable Languages -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects

1. Philosophy
2. Language and languages -- Philosophy
3. Computational linguistics
4. Philosophy
5. Philosophy of Language
6. Computational Linguistics