Language as a Strategic Game
Date(s):
March 31, 2025, 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location:
Online via Zoom
Language is a type of signaling game. The players are rational decision-makers who make choices based on their own and others’ possible linguistic choices. Learn how game theoretic principles, such as Bayesian probability and cheap talk, can be used to explain an array of pragmatic and discursive principles from implied meaning to strategic ‘cheap’ talk used in social media contexts and AI.
Co-sponsored by the School of Modern Languages and the Atlanta Global Studies Center.
