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but it is at the third level in which we propagate this as an idea by saying, "red means danger".

===The Meaning of Meaning===

[[File:Semiotic Triangle.png|thumb|right|alt=An equilateral triangle is labelled with Symbol to the left, Object to the right, and Thought or Reference to the top apex. The base line is dotted to signify the implied relationship between the Symbol and Object is only achieved through the Thought or Reference of the interpreter.|The Semiotic Triangle of Reference, figure taken from page 11 of The Meaning of Meaning.]]

British linguists C. K. Ogden and I. A. Richards, published The Meaning of Meaning in 1923, draws on Peirce's Semiotics,

illustrating the functioning of speech as a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_of_reference#/media/File:Ogden_semiotic_triangle.png triangle],

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Their idea of utterances, not words, conveying meaning was quite revolutionary, and prefigures Grice's Implicature.

"", 1923.

===Speech Act Theory===

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._L._Austin J. L. Austin] used his William James' Lecture, at Harvard in 1955, to critique the traditional analysis of language towards truth statements.