Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning

In linguistic communication, the speaker’s utterance simultaneously generates several levels of meaning related to Grice’s distinction between what is said and what is implicated. Yet, there is a lively debate about the two notions. This study gives a general overview of three schools: Semantic Mini...

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Veröffentlicht in:Humanities & social sciences communications 2023-12, Vol.10 (1), p.244-22, Article 244
Hauptverfasser: Rahman, Abduwali, Xu, Wanzhi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In linguistic communication, the speaker’s utterance simultaneously generates several levels of meaning related to Grice’s distinction between what is said and what is implicated. Yet, there is a lively debate about the two notions. This study gives a general overview of three schools: Semantic Minimalism, Radical Contextualism, and Moderate Contextualism. After surveying the current controversies in these theories, it introduces a new direction: Moderate Semantic Minimalism. This eclectic approach isolates the propositional meaning as what is asserted, something intermediate between the literal level of what is said and the intentional level of what is implicated. It tends to take the minimal notion of what is said to be relatively context-independent and does not have to be a truth-evaluable proposition.
ISSN:2662-9992
2662-9992
DOI:10.1057/s41599-023-01701-2