3rd edition - 2025

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.

Evolutionary dynamics and iterative processes

For the third edition of this workshop, June 5-7, 2025, we are particularly interested in applications of game theory in the study of language using:
- 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
by January 30, 2025.

Proposals are accepted on a rolling basis between now and January 30, 2025. Particular attention is given to studies exploring methodological connections between game theory and linguistics

With contributions by:

Despoina Alempaki * Galit Ashkenazi-Golan * Anton Benz * Ulrich Berger * Valeria Burdea * Heather Burnett * Keny Chatain * Fryderyk Falniowski * Danny Fox * Aviad Heifetz * Ziv Hellman * Josef Hofbauer * Roni Katzir * Panayotis Mertikopoulos * Maël Le Treust * Léo Migotti Ramponi * Christina Pawlowitsch * Philip Reny * Stephan Semirat * Benjamin Simmenauer * Juha Tolvanen * Vassili Vergopoulos * Yannick Viossat * Simon Weidenholzer * Jörgen Weibull *

Program Committee:
Dietmar Berwanger * Paul Égré * Josef Hofbauer * Christina Pawlowitsch * Benjamin Spector * Vassili Vergopoulos

Image: © Sylvia K. Kummer, "les blancs au milieu," 2016

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