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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| description | 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: 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. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-67cd9c1e29f643c2a90461149fe0f5872023-05-21T11:11:18ZengSpringer NatureHumanities & Social Sciences Communications2662-99922023-05-0110112210.1057/s41599-023-01701-2Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaningAbduwali Rahman0Wanzhi Xu1School of Foreign Languages, Shandong University of TechnologySchool of Foreign Studies, China University of Petroleum (East China)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: 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.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01701-2 |
| spellingShingle | Abduwali Rahman Wanzhi Xu Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| title | Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning |
| title_full | Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning |
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| title_short | Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning |
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