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Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning

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  • Abduwali Rahman

    (Shandong University of Technology)

  • Wanzhi Xu

    (China University of Petroleum (East China))

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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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  • Abduwali Rahman & Wanzhi Xu, 2023. "Moderate semantic minimalism: an eclectic approach to trichotomy of meaning," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-22, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palcom:v:10:y:2023:i:1:d:10.1057_s41599-023-01701-2
    DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01701-2
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