We can't just ask about'meaning', then. There are at least three dep different dimensions or levels of meaning: the meaning of a word. of rail an utterance, and of a text. Possible meanings of words contribute to disti the meaning of an utterance, which is an act by a speaker. (And the Oxfo meanings of words. intum. come from the things they might do in parti e utterances) Finally. the text,which here represents an unknown perso speaker making this enigmatical utterance. is something an author has arriva constructed. and its meaning is not a proposition but what it does its identi potential to affect readers.