Hmm. What's your social goal here?

It is something that it would be wiser to discuss with those for whom I would infer different motives and where I would predict different usages of any supplied text.

Producing texts for social goal purposes is called signalling (usually, but depends to what you're trying to do).

When I engage my Hansonian reasoning I can describe everything humans do in terms of their signalling implications. Yet to describe things as just signalling is to discard rather a lot of information. Some more specific goals that people could have in a given argument include:

• Learning information from the other.
• Understanding why the other believes the way they do.
• Tracing the precise nature of disagreement.
• Persuading the other.
• Providing information to the other.
• Combining your thinking capabilities with another so as to better explore the relevant issues and arrive at a better solution than either could alone.
• Persuade the audience.
• Educate the audience.
• Mitigate the damage that the other has done through advocating incorrect or undesired knowledge or political opinions.
• Entertain others or yourself.
• Make oneself look impressive to the audience.
• Alter the feelings that the other has towards you in a positive direction.
• Practice one's skills at doing any of the above.
• Demonstrate one's ability to do any of the above and thereby gain indirect benefit.

Some of those can be better described as 'signalling' than others.