Communication and content

Praise for Communication and content
Contents
Acknowledgments
I Introduction
	1 Why communication is central to meaning
		1.1 Semantics
		1.2 A classic example
		1.3 A snapshot of semantics
		1.4 Equilibrium Semantics
	2 Information and agents
		2.1 Information
			2.1.1 Philosophical background
			2.1.2 Situation theory
		2.2 Agents
			2.2.1 A simple example
			2.2.2 Common knowledge
			2.2.3 Context
	3 A picture of communication
		3.1 Micro-semantics
			3.1.1 The Setting Game
			3.1.2 The Content Selection Game
			3.1.3 The Generation Game and the Interpretation Game
			3.1.4 The Communication Game
		3.2 Macro-semantics
	4 Language and structure
		4.1 Language
		4.2 Algebraic system of trees
		4.3 Summary of assumptions
II Foundational perspectives
	5 Grice and conversation
		5.1 Communication as rational activity
		5.2 The theory of conversation
		5.3 Speaker meaning and word meaning
		5.4 Semantics and pragmatics
	6 Incorporating elements of the Romantic tradition
		6.1 Human agency
			6.1.1 Persons as self-interpreting animals
			6.1.2 Irreducible evaluations of choices
			6.1.3 The expressive dimension of action
			6.1.4 Collective action
		6.2 Language
III Communication Games
	7 Defining Communication Games
		7.1 The Setting Game
		7.2 The Content Selection Game
		7.3 The Generation Game
			7.3.1 The Syntactic Constraint
			7.3.2 The Semantic Constraint
			7.3.3 The Flow Constraint
			7.3.4 Back to the Generation Game
		7.4 The Interpretation Game
		7.5 The Content Selection Game again
		7.6 Back to the Setting Game
		7.7 The Communication Game
	8 Solving Communication Games
		8.1 Solving Locutionary Global Games
			8.1.1 The two versions of g1
			8.1.2 Looking for Pareto-Nash equilibria
			8.1.3 A theorem
			8.1.4 The compact form
			8.1.5 The main theorems
		8.2 My former partial information games
		8.3 An interesting complication
		8.4 Solving Generation Games
		8.5 Solving Communication Games
		8.6 An expanded Content Selection Game
	9 An example with syntactic ambiguity
		9.1 The example
			9.1.1 The Syntactic Constraint
			9.1.2 The Semantic Constraint
				9.1.2.1 The Flow Constraint
		9.2 Locutionary meaning
	10 Universality, Frege's principles, indeterminacy, and truth
		10.1 The universality of games of partial information
		10.2 Frege's compositionality and context principles
		10.3 Indeterminacy
		10.4 Meaning and truth
	11 Vagueness
		11.1 Basic setup
			11.1.1 The exemplar model
			11.1.2 The prototype model
		11.2 Characterizing vagueness
		11.3 The sorites paradox
		11.4 Essentially contested concepts
		11.5 Back to communication
		11.6 Communication and categorization
	12 Psycholinguistics and natural language processing
		12.1 The connection with psycholinguistics
		12.2 The connection with natural language processing
IV Illocutionary meaning and beyond
	13 Relevance
		13.1 The Relevance-Theoretic concept of relevance
			13.1.1 The first difficulty
			13.1.2 The second difficulty
			13.1.3 The third difficulty
			13.1.4 The fourth difficulty
		13.2 The value of information
			13.2.1 The first difficulty
			13.2.2 The second difficulty
		13.3 The role of relevance
	14 Distance
	15 Free enrichment
		15.1 Representationalism and Contextualism
		15.2 How to think about content
		15.3 The Semantic Constraint: Generating possible indirect contents
		15.4 The Flow Constraint: Eliminating possible indirect contents
	16 Implicature
	17 Modulation
		17.1 The Semantic Constraint
		17.2 The Flow Constraint
		17.3 Recapitulation
	18 Overview of illocutionary meaning
		18.1 Review of the argument for indirect meaning
		18.2 A complete example
	19 Beyond illocutionary meaning
		19.1 Significance
		19.2 Associations and extended meaning
		19.3 Inverse information
		19.4 Latent meaning
		19.5 Discourse meaning
		19.6 Emotive meaning
	20 Classifying meaning
	21 Translation
V Language Games
	22 Defining and solving Language Games
		22.1 A simple Language Game
		22.2 Some generalizations
		22.3 Comparisons
	23 Convention
	24 Semantic change
		24.1 Semantic broadening: The communicative aspect
		24.2 Semantic broadening: The propagative aspect
		24.3 Generalizing the model
	25 Beyond language
VI Conclusion
	26 Communication, Frege's puzzle, and reference
		26.1 Four philosophical benefits
		26.2 Solving Frege's puzzle
			26.2.1 Preliminaries
				26.2.1.1 Causal chains
				26.2.1.2 Resource situations and modes of presentation
				26.2.1.3 The extension function
				26.2.1.4 Functions treated intensionally and extensionally
			26.2.2 Setting up the analysis
			26.2.3 Semantic Constraint
			26.2.4 The analysis
			26.2.5 Wider considerations
		26.3 Defining reference
	Appendix A: Situated games
		A.1 The background
		A.2 Some prior basic elements
		A.3 Games of incomplete information
		A.4 Games of partial information
			A.4.1 Situations and choices
			A.4.2 Actions
			A.4.3 Agents
			A.4.4 Prior probabilities
			A.4.5 Information sets
			A.4.6 Payoffs
			A.4.7 The game tuple
		A.5 The product of two games
		A.6 The compact form
		A.7 Solution concepts
	References
	Index
		Name index
		Subject index