Textual Interpretation in Machines

 'A turn of phrase' is a metaphor, which refers to metaphors in general. In the resolution of indirect pointers, perhaps the machine architecture for this is pretty similar to the machine architecture for banal memory address and final data resolution. That is insightful. 

So we can have sensory data structures which depict an interpretation of a sign, let's call them 'visualisations' or 'imaginations' and then we can have pointers from imaginations to imaginations which eventually resolve to a reified state. The meaning of the original sign ( 'text' ) however, is not merely the final reified interpretation, but the entire chain of interpretations, in a possibly cyclic digraph.