The phrase "a statement of meaning" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the interpretation or significance of a particular statement or expression.
Example: "In literary analysis, a statement of meaning can reveal the deeper themes present in the text."
Alternatives: "an expression of significance" or "a declaration of intent."
Yasmina Reza's spectacularly popular play, now in the midst of a touring version's five-week stopover at the Paper Mill Playhouse here, can be taken as a statement of the meaning and the arbitrariness of the word that gives the play its title: a three-letter word that will forever incite controversy.
Thus, a 21st-century historian may charge Hume with distorting Cromwell if, according to the historian, the words Hume uses to report a statement of Cromwell differ in meaning from the words Cromwell actually used.
"What is man that thou art mindful of him?" The very question is an assertion that mindfulness is an attribute of God, as well as of man, a statement of the sense of deep meaning inhering in mindfulness.
In one sense it is a straightforward statement about the natural numbers that seems to be true; at the same time, it represents a statement of "metamathematics" with the evident meaning: "This string of symbols is not a theorem". The paradox of Epimenides is with us again, and this time there is no escaping through the loopholes of language.
And in an interview with the Spanish journal Doxa near the end of his career he maintained 'that legal and moral obligation are conceptually different' in the sense that a statement of obligation has a different meaning in law and in morality (De Paramo 1988).
While Wittgenstein may have thought of this statement more as a constitutive principle of meaning, in the Circle it was put to work primarily as a demarcation criterion against metaphysics, albeit typically based on an underlying theory of meaning.
To some more liberal churchmen, the rock songs being played on secular ra dio are coming nearer to a graphic statement of the meaning of Jesus than are contemporary church serv ices.
A theory of speaker meaning requires, in addition to an accurate statement of the meaning-bestowing intentions, a complementary theory of expression meaning.
Themes established considered statements of meaning that were present in most of the data.
In establishing themes, consideration was given to statements of meaning that were present in most of the relevant data.
