Moderate semantic minimalism

An eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning

Dados Bibliográficos

ID22234773
AutoresAbduwali Rahman (0000-0002-9624-9710, Shandong University of Technology, autor correspondente), Wanzhi Xu (China University of Petroleum, East China, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume10
Fascículo1
Data de publicação2023-05-16
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHumanities and Social Sciences Communications (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2662-9992 • E-ISSN: 2662-9992
EditoraSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/s41599-023-01701-2
OpenAlexW4376891153
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas93

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

Contextualism · Epistemology · Grice · Linguistics · Pragmatics · Proposition · Utterance · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Mathematics · Philosophy · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation