Games, Decisions, and Language

This workshop series

The purpose of this workshop series is to foster research at the intersection of game theory and the study of language. It notably aims at providing a platform for:
- game and decision-theoretic treatments of problems that are studied in the context of established research programs in linguistics, in particular, language evolution and language change, sociolinguistics, and semantics and pragmatics;
- studies carving out the linguistic implications of established modeling frameworks in game and decision theory, such as signaling, cheap-talk, Bayesian persuasion, ambiguity, models of interactive-knowledge and Bayesian dialogues; and
- methodological reflections on the interaction of game and decision theory and the study of language.

Call for Contributions - 2025

For the third edition of this workshop, June 5-7, 2025, we are particularly interested in:
- methods from evolutionary game theory, and
- iterative processes such as rationalizability and Bayesian dialogues (as studied in game theory) or the Rational Speech Act model (as studied in linguistics).

If you would like to give a talk at this event, please send a proposal (extended abstract or working paper) to:
christina.pawlowitsch@u-paris2.fr
not later than October 31, 2024.

Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis between now and October 31, 2024. Particular attention is given to studies exploring methodological connections between areas of research in different disciplines.

With contributions by:

Galit Ashkenazi-Golan * Anton Benz * Heather Burnett * Danny Fox * Michael Franke * Josef Hofbauer * Roni Katzir * Panayotis Mertikopoulos * Christina Pawlowitsch * Pierre Tarrés * Yannick Viossat * Jörgen Weibull *