Pictorial and Alphabet Writings in Asymmetric Signaling Games

摘要

The goal of the paper is to differentiate the pictorial writings and alphabet writings (i.e. Chinese vs English) in signaling games. The idea is to emphasize the asymmetry of communicators' different cognitive statuses while they are writing and reading by using these two types of languages. For fulfilling the idea, we study two variations of the standard evolutionary signaling game in order to incorporate players' asymmetry on recognizing and learning signals. It is found that pictorial representation takes more advantages in the early stage of the development of a language, while alphabet representation works better in the long run.