ABSTRACT
This chapter examines a variety of notions of sense and reference, ranging from Husserl's phenomenology through to recent views on representation in cultural studies. It investigates the implications of these positions for establishing an account of intersubjectivity. The pivotal role played by senses between context and denotative reference ensures that past references are not subsumed or reinscribed in this way but become sedimented within present utterances as articulations within their overall structure. The question of everyday as critique is a culmination of the foregoing considerations in that everyday functioning involves grasping senses of topics if not their objectified forms. It involves (actively) making sense. The chapter examines this trope of communication. The moment of the mediation of reference via sense rather than other atomistic terms alone is missing from the semiotic and subsequent poststructuralist account of meaning and representation.
