Минимална семантика и контекстуализъм. Опит върху метасемантиката
Minimalism and contextualism. An essay into metasemantics

Summary/Abstract: Minimal semantics and contextualism have proved to be of central interest in the philosophy of language recently. This opposition seems to be akin to a series of previous discussions concerning contents possessed by sentences, the primary bearers of meaning and what is communicated by a speaker who utters a sentence. It bears resemblance to Strawson’s thesis of the confl ict between theorists of formal semantics and theorists of communication-intention and Grice’s notion of ‘what is said by a sentence’ that fed philosophy of language in the second half of the 20th century. This paper aims at presenting the current approaches to semantic theory from the perspective of the notion of literalism in its contemporary variations and the conceptualization of the role of and outlines the main features of what can be considered a new round of the ‘linguistic turn’ in philosophy. Minimalism is explored as the outcome of the interface between the two approaches and as a viable semantic option to further infl uence signifi cant philosophical topics within philosophy of language. Contextualism articulates the concept of context-dependence and makes it inseparable from the process of content possession. I conclude by suggesting that there are further potential epistemological consequences that are to be highlighted.

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