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- Title
LANGUAGE BARRIERS.
- Authors
BLUME, ABDREAS; BOARD, OLIVER
- Abstract
Different people use language in different ways. We capture this by making language competence-the set of messages an agent can use and understand-private information. Our primary focus is on common-interest games. Communication generally remains possible; it may be severely impaired even with common knowledge that language competence is adequate; and, indeterminacy of meaning, the confounding of payoff-relevant information with information about language competence, is optimal.
- Subjects
COMMUNICATION barriers; INDETERMINACY (Linguistics); LANGUAGE &; languages; COMPETENCE &; performance (Linguistics); CONFIDENTIAL communications
- Publication
Econometrica, 2013, Vol 81, Issue 2, p781
- ISSN
0012-9682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3982/ECTA9183