John Searle s Speech Acts made a highly original contribution to work in the philosophy of language. Expression and Meaning is a direct successor concerned to develop and refine the account presented in Searle s earlier work and to extend its application to other modes of discourse such as metaphor fiction reference and indirect speech arts. Searle also presents a rational taxonomy of types of speech acts and explores the relation between the meanings of sentences and the contexts of their utterance. The book points forward to a larger theme implicit in these problems - the basis certain features of speech have in the intentionality of mind and even more generally the relation of the philosophy of language to the philosophy of mind.