{
  "id": "statement.communication",
  "term": "statement",
  "sense": "communication",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 10,
  "arena": "statements",
  "domain": "communication",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a message about a meaning",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "message.information",
      "meaning.significance",
      "mean.signify"
    ],
    "interaction": "the message is about the meaning, which it signifies",
    "novel_properties": [
      "signifying act",
      "aboutness of meaning",
      "assertive content"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The 1977 Voyager Golden Record carries sounds and images selected to portray humanity to any intelligent extraterrestrial life.",
      "domain": "space exploration"
    },
    {
      "text": "The U.S. Constitution's First Amendment protects the right to express statements, shaping American legal interpretation since 1791.",
      "domain": "law"
    },
    {
      "text": "A thermostat display reads 'Heating: 22°C', signaling the current environmental control state in a home system.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "statement",
    "statements"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6,
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "components",
      "note": "Added 'mean.signify' as a constitutive component since the definition relies on the notion of signification, which was previously missing from the emergence record."
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-statement.communication"
}