`What an Ugly Baby!'

David Sally
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David Sally: Cornell University, Johnson Graduate School of Management, 371 Sage Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA dfs12@cornell.edu

Rationality and Society, 2002, vol. 14, issue 1, 78-108

Abstract: The understanding of coordination games has increased greatly over the last thirty years through advances in game theory and tests in experimental economics laboratories. A given utterance, of necessity, is a puzzle and creates a coordination game of meaning. The solution principles used in this game should be consistent with those found in all coordination games, and can explain certain elements of pragmatics: in particular, when a speaker can successfully employ irony, metaphor, humor, hints, indirectness, and implication.

Keywords: behavioral game theory; coordination games hints; irony; meaning; pragmatics; risk dominance; sympathy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/1043463102014001004

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