MEANING DETACHMENT -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Table of contents -- PART 1. MEANING DETACHMENT AND INTERPRETING UTTERANCES -- I. DETACHMENT RULE. -- II. DETACHMENT THEOREM -- III. THE MEANING-IMPLICATION RELATION -- IV. MEANING DETACHMENT (WEAK VERSION) -- V. TEE ENTAILMENT OF "MEAN" ACCORDING TO GRICE -- VI. INCORPORATION OF A CONSEQUENCE INTO MEANING -- VII. MEANING DETACHMENT (STRONG VERSION) -- VIII. ARBITRARINESS OF SIGNS -- IX. LINGUISTIC MARKING OF MEANING DETACHMENT -- X. MEANING DETACHMENT FROM A PARTIAL INTERPRETATION -- XI. SOME CASES OF NON MEANING DETACHMEN -- XII. VARIOUS EXTENSIONS OF MEANING DETACHMENT -- PART 2. SELF-INTERPRETING UTTERANCES -- XIII. SELF-REFERRING IMPLICATION -- XIV. SELF-REFERRING INTERPRETATION -- XV. SELF-INTERPRETIVE VARIANTS -- XVI. SELF-REFERENCE IN LINGUISTIC INTERPRETATIONS -- XVII. A CAVEAT ON THE NOTION 'SELF-REFERENCE' -- XVIII. SELF-INTERPRETING THOUGHTS ? -- XIX. SOME SIMILARITIES BETWEEN CONTEXT-INTERPRETATIONS AND SELF-INTERPRETATIONS -- XX. ONE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTEXT-INTERPRETATIONS AND SELF-INTERPRETATIONS -- XXI. "INSUBORDINATION" OF THE INTERPRETANS -- APPENDIX: EXPLICIT PERFORMATIVES ARE ASSERTIONS -- 0. Assertion -- 1. Autonomous relevance of primary meaning. -- 2. Contextual incorporation of primary meaning. -- 3. Explicit performative answers. -- 4. "True" explicit performatives. -- 5. Explicit performatives embedded in assertion-inducers. -- 6. Parenthetical explicit performatives in French. -- 7. Reporting an explicit performative. -- 8. Assertions induced by "and". -- 9. 'And' versus 'or'. -- 10. A special case with 'or'. -- Conclusion. -- FOOTNOTES -- REFERENCES.