Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introductory remarks -- Chapter 1. Meaning as socio-cognitive dynamism -- 1.1. Introductory remarks -- 1.2. All paths lead to cognition -- 1.2.1. The Lakoffian route -- 1.2.1.1. Categories, categorization and conceptual figurativeness -- 1.2.1.2 Context -- 1.2.2. The Langackerian route -- 1.2.2.1. (Inter)subjectivity and objectivity -- 1.2.2.2. Back on track -- 1.3. When in a community, do as the others do -- 1.3.1. Language acquisition -- 1.3.2. Language use -- 1.4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 2. Meaning underway: How semiotic meaning is -- 2.1. Introductory remarks -- 2.2. Saussurean sign -- 2.3. Peircean sign -- 2.4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 3. Phenomenology of meaning -- 3.1. Introductory remarks -- 3.2. Consciousness (un)limited -- 3.3. Where objectivity and intersubjectivity meet -- 3.3.1. Subjectivity -- 3.3.2. Objectivity -- 3.3.3. Intersubjectivity -- 3.3.4. Pure consciousness -- 3.4. Concluding remarks -- Chapter 4. The world of meaning -- 4.1. Introductory remarks -- 4.2. An unfinished world -- 4.3. The categories of my world -- 4.3.1. Firstness, Secondness, Thirdness: Preliminaries -- 4.3.2. Firstness -- 4.3.3. Secondness -- 4.3.4. Thirdness -- 4.4. Concluding remarks -- Concluding remarks -- References.