ABSTRACT
There are various ways in which we might want to make good on the claim that a statement or belief is expressive in nature. We do not necessarily have to be enforcing the classical distinction between cognitive and non-cognitive statements although this is most often what motivates expressivist accounts. We do not have to characterise what we mean by expressive in the same way either. Philosophers may agree that a statement or discourse is expressive but disagree over what it means for it to be expressive. Whether or not the consequences of such disagreement are serious or superficial, the fact remains that to predicate "expressive" of a discourse or a statement tells us very little in the first instance.
