After reading the chapter 4, Jonathan mention that literature has three dimensions of meaning, the meaning of word that comes from the things they might do in utterances, the meaning of an utterance which is an act by a speaker and meaning of a text which represents an unknown speaker making an utterance. Language doesn’t provide labels for pre-existing categories as it generates its own categories speakers and readers can be brought to see through and around the settings of their language, in order to see alternate reality. Meaning is directed to a great extent by setting and experiences. What one individual says may mean something completely unique to someone else. Similarly, as the meaning of life is relative, the meaning of words we utilized relies upon the context, our intent and other’s understanding. The idea taken from the poem by Robert Frost, strikes me as interesting regarding the relationship between language and meaning. There’s a difference between asking about the meaning of text and the meaning of word. In other hand, Saussure defines linguistics as the study of language and as the study of the manifestations of human speech. He says that linguistics is also concerned with the history of language and with the social or cultural influences that develop the shape of language. Language have been a major issue for recent theory. We really need to understand the language and meaning.

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