Reading Jerome Bruner’s Acts of Meaning. Gives a psychologist’s account of meaning-making in our social world.

Or one can imagine specifying the conditions on the meanings of particular utterances that follow the initial statement “Let us pray.” Under its dispensation, the utterance “Give us this day our daily bread,” is not to be taken as a request but, say, as an act of reverence or trust. And, if it is to be understood in its context, it must be interpreted as a trope (p. 64).

Interesting example. Will have to come back to this post and thought.