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According to a Meaning Detachment principle, assuming simultaneously an act of communication P, and that by P one means that Q, amounts to meaning that Q. A variety of conjunctions of utterances illustrating this process of indirect meaning are considered. By the same principle, if an assertion P reflexively means that by P, one means that Q, it indirectly means that Q. Various explicit performatives are analysed as such self-interpreting utterances, which, by Meaning Detachment, mean that they claim to mean.
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This page is a summary of: Meaning Detachment, January 1980, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/pb.i.7.
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