Collection
Games, Decisions, and Language
The International Journal of Game Theory (IJGT) invites submissions of significant papers at the interface of Linguistics and Game Theory. Both disciplines are studies of interaction with common topics. However, papers in one area often use only rudimentary versions of the other, such as extremely simple games in linguistic models, or ad-hoc theories of language in economics papers. In this collection, we aim for articles that employ linguistics and game theory with a significant contribution from the other field.
Examples of contributions are:
- linguistic applications of costly signaling, cheap talk, Bayesian persuasion, or other models that have been studied in game theory,
- game-theoretic treatments of problems that have been formulated in the context of established research programs in linguistics, such as: implicatures, presupposition accommodation, anaphora, vagueness, politeness in language, emergence of meaning, non-cooperative uses of language (flouting of Grice’s maxims),
- game-theoretic assessments of the Rational Speech Act model,
- linguistic interpretations of Bayesian dialogues,
- methodological reflections on the interaction of game theory and the study of language.
Papers should be submitted via the electronic submission platform Editorial Manager.
Please find the Submission Guidelines the journal website and submit through the Springer online system
Editorial process:
- Each article submitted to the Collection will be sent to all five guest editors.
- The guest editors then decide collectively who of them shall handle the submission.
- Each submission should be reviewed by at least one reviewer with a more formal background (economics/mathematics/computer science) and one reviewer from linguistics or philosophy.
- The guest editor handling the submission reports to the board of co-editors of the Collection and recommends a decision.
- The board of co-editors has to validate that decision.
It is hoped that this will lead to truly cross-disciplinary contributions.
All articles will be reviewed to the high standards of IJGT (one-sided blind peer review).
Submissions are handled on a rolling basis. Articles are published online first as soon as accepted and already findable as part of this Collection on the website of the journal. Still, manuscripts should reach us no later than May 2024, and early submissions are encouraged.
At the appropriate time, papers in the Collection will also be published online and in print as a special issue of the journal.
Editors
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Paul Égré
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France
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Christina Katt-Pawlowitsch
Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas, France
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Joel Sobel
University of California at San Diego, USA
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Benjamin Spector
CNRS, Institut Jean Nicod, Paris, France
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Bernhard von Stengel
London School of Economics and Political Science, UK
