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Abstract

To understand evolutionary aspects of communication is to understand the evolutionary development of the meaning relations between language and the world. Such meaning relations are established by the application of the interactive systems of semantic games. Subsumed under the evolutionary framework of repeated games, semantics in such games refers to the cases in which stable meanings survive populations of strategically interacting players. The viability of compositionality, common ground and salience in such evolutionary games is assessed. Foundationally, the discussion is rooted in Charles S. Peirce's pragmatist philosophy.

Keywords: communication; evolutionary game theory; logic; Peirce; semantic games

@article{pietarinen06semanticsEvolution,
  author={Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen},
  title={The evolution of semantics and language-games for meaning},
  journal={Interaction Studies},
  year={2006},
  volume={7},
  number={1},
  pages={79-104},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/pietarinen06semanticsEvolution.html},
  keywords={communication; evolutionary game theory; logic; Peirce; semantic games}
}