Ludics and its Applications to natural Language Semantics

TL;DR

This paper explores a novel approach to natural language semantics using Ludics, where sentence meanings are understood through dialectical interactions with counter-meanings, integrating proof-theoretic and game-theoretic perspectives.

Contribution

It introduces a new semantic framework based on Ludics that handles infinite processes and dialectical interactions, extending existing proof and game-theoretic models.

Findings

Proposes a Ludics-based model for sentence semantics.

Enables handling of infinite semantic processes.

Bridges proof-theoretic and game-theoretic approaches.

Abstract

Proofs, in Ludics, have an interpretation provided by their counter-proofs, that is the objects they interact with. We follow the same idea by proposing that sentence meanings are given by the counter-meanings they are opposed to in a dialectical interaction. The conception is at the intersection of a proof-theoretic and a game-theoretic accounts of semantics, but it enlarges them by allowing to deal with possibly infinite processes.