In the “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation” by Culler, the author discusses the connection between language and meaning. One of the ideas from this chapter that attract my attention is literature language can have different meaning. The understanding of the language depends to the meaning we accord to the words, the utterance we hear and how the text is structured.  There are different kind of writers, some of them are very simple and clear in their words and sentences they use to communicate with the readers but, others use some complex texts in their writing. For this kind of group, sometimes we can have some difficulties to understand the meaning of the text because of the style and form of the words they use. The meaning of the words can have different interpretation and that fact can change the meaning of the text. Furthermore, the utterance of the words can also give another signification of the text. In some cases, the sentence is written very simple, but the meaning of the language requires deep reflection to be understood. For some writers who use fiction to express their opinion, the meaning of the text can be related to the real situation which indirectly connected to text, that mean we have to be able to analyze deeply the text to understand the text. Also, in some particular situation our differences, for example our culture or origin can influence to the interpretation of the text, we can see or read the text in different angles. In addition, language of literature is one of the ways to learn how we can articulate words and give signification to the words.

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