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 |
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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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