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Prashant Parikh develops an account of linguistic meaning through situation theory and game theory. He considers how speakers and listeners use shared information, partial rationality and context to arrive at literal and implied meanings.
The book works through ambiguity, vagueness, convention, reference, translation and the relationship between truth and communication. Its formal models engage with Frege, Grice and Lewis while connecting philosophical questions about meaning with linguistics and cognitive science. The complete 2019 publisher edition includes the mathematical development, references and indexes.