This is in fact an excellent introduction to game theory full stop. It covers strategic and extensive games, complete and incomplete information, sequential rationality, etc. Very nicely. And then on page 64 it gets really interesting, applying evolutionary game theory to pragmatics, a field in linguistics concerned with the contextual meaning of language.
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