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Use of language belongs to a class of situations with a conspicuous common character: situations I shall call coordination problems.
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Convention was immediately recognized as a major contribution to the subject and its significance has remained undiminished since its first publication in 1969. Lewis analyzes social conventions as regularities in the resolution of recurring coordination problems - situations characterized by interdependent decision processes in which common interests are at stake. Conventions are contrasted with other kinds of regularity, and conventions governing systems of communication are given special attention. This book is of central importance to philosophers, linguists, social scientists, legal theorists, and anyone interested in the role of convention in the function of social behavior and language.
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- Title Convention
- Author David Lewis
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 226
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
- Date 2002-05-17
- ISBN 9780631232568 / 0631232567
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.14 x 6.14 x 0.89 in (23.22 x 15.60 x 2.26 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 149.9
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