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 implicated. Yet, there a lively debate about two notions. This study gives general overview three schools: Semantic Minimalism, Radical Contextualism, Moderate Contextualism. After surveying current controversies in these theories, it introduces new direction: Minimalism. eclectic approach isolates propositional as asserted, something intermediate literal level intentional It tends take minimal notion be relatively context-independent does not have truth-evaluable proposition.