Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning

Abstract 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: Sema...

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Main Authors: Abduwali Rahman, Wanzhi Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Nature 2023-05-01
Series:Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01701-2