Language Barriers
Econometrica · 2013 · Volume 81 · Issue 2
Abstract
Different people use language in different ways. We capture this by makinglanguage 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.
Keywords
Communication games, language differences, indeterminate meaning, organizational codes
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