UID:
almahu_9949481409202882
Format:
1 online resource (306 p.)
ISBN:
9783110897753
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9783110238570
Series Statement:
Approaches to Applied Semiotics [AAS] , 5
Content:
Communication Games is a new and radical interpretation of the relationship between culture and communication. It explores the idea that culture and communication studies should be seen predominantly in relation to struggles and conflicts within the social arena. It criticizes the conventional heritage of the social sciences and humanities. Culture and communication are conceived not merely as means of integrating social actors, but as semiotic ways of providing fitness indicators that allow for the resolution of competition between individuals. From the perspective of Peircean semiotics and the Darwinian understanding of life processes, Communication Games redefines culture in terms of Darwin's notion of sexual selection. Moving on from the realization that sexual selection creates individual organisms with conflicting interests, Communication Games emphasizes the contribution of game theory to semiotics and communication studies. The book demonstrates how cooperation and shared conventions eventually emerge, and how conflicts are resolved through the display of costly and inflated signs. It is from these inflated signs and the escalation of excessive messages that cultures gain a certain degree of stability. Communication Games proposes a new way of understanding culture, communication, and semiotic exchange in terms of game theory.
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i-vi --
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Acknowledgments --
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Contents --
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Foreword --
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Part 1. Canonical games --
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Chapter 1. Conflict --
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Chapter 2. Coordination --
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Chapter 3. Contract --
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Part 2. Ancestral games --
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Chapter 4. Origin --
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Chapter 5. Sex, signals --
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Part 3. Individual games --
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Chapter 6. Strategies --
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Chapter 7. Players --
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Afterword --
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Notes --
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References --
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Index
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Issued also in print.
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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
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In English.
In:
DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1, De Gruyter, 9783110238570
In:
DGBA Backlist Linguistics and Semiotics 2000-2014 (EN), De Gruyter, 9783110238457
In:
DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 2000 - 2014, De Gruyter, 9783110636970
In:
De Gruyter Mouton Backlist 2000-2015, De Gruyter, 9783110742961
In:
E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2007, De Gruyter, 9783110277135
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LANGUAGES TITLES 2007, De Gruyter, 9783110277197
In:
E-BOOK PACKAGE ENGLISH LINGUISTICS 2007, De Gruyter, 9783110277166
In:
E-BOOK PAKET LINGUISTIK UND LITERATURWISSENSCHAFT 2007, De Gruyter, 9783110276909
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110190465
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
DOI:
10.1515/9783110897753
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110897753
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110897753
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