Economics and Language

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Economics and Language

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Rubinstein, A.

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Ariel Rubinstein

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This paper is the Schwartz Memorial Lecture, delivered at Kellogg, Northwestern University in May 1998. The lecture introduces some ideas about the possible use of tools taken from the economics literature to explain language phenomena. Two specific issues are discussed: From the domain of semantics -- why linear orderings are so common in natural language; and from the domain of pragmatics -- why arguments and counterarguments are treated asymmetrically.

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Paper provided by Tel Aviv in its series Papers with number 14-98.

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- A. Rubinstein, 1999. "Economics and Language," Princeton Economic Theory Papers 00s6, Economics Department, Princeton University.

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