Abstract

In what follows, I would like to point out some basic aspects of the message in communication. First, a holistic agency as "the society of mind" (Minsky) emerges from interactions among its individual agents. Second, the messages which are sent out or received by the agents consist of two different constituents: "citation" and "commentaire" (Sperber), where the former is the invariant part of their meaning conditioned by semantic rules, and the latter is the variant one showing the agent's intention to perform the speech act. Third, what is expressed in the message of communication is a speaker's intention, making use of the "quoted" propositional meaning only as Stoff for its performance.