Scorekeeping in a chess game

Pickel, B. and Rabern, B. (2022) Scorekeeping in a chess game. Semantics and Pragmatics, 15, 12. (doi: 10.3765/sp.15.12) (Early Online Publication)

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Abstract

There is an important analogy between languages and games. Just as a scoresheet records features of the evolution of a game to determine the effect of a move in that game, a conversational score records features of the evolution of a conversation to determine the effect of the linguistic moves that speakers make. Chess is particularly interesting for the study of conversational dynamics because it has language-like notations, and so serves as a simplified study in how the effect of an assertion depends on, as well as evolves, the scoreboard. In this paper, we offer a compositional semantics for chess notation and a simple formal picture for determining the full information conveyed by an entry. We will also discuss an alternative model resembling accounts of centered assertion.

Item Type:Articles
Additional Information:Status check: 2023-06-13 NH Still in early access
Status:Early Online Publication
Refereed:Yes
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID:Pickel, Dr Bryan
Authors: Pickel, B., and Rabern, B.
College/School:College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy
Journal Name:Semantics and Pragmatics
Publisher:Linguistic Society of America
ISSN:1937-8912
ISSN (Online):1937-8912
Published Online:08 September 2022
Copyright Holders:Copyright © 2022 The Authors
First Published:First published in Semantics and Pragmatics 2022
Publisher Policy:Reproduced under a Creative Commons License

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