After reading chapter 4 in “Literature, Meaning, and Interpretation” by Jonathan Culler, I found the point that he explain the relationship between people and language is interesting. I like what he said “the story one can tell about a given work depends upon what theorists have called the reader’s ‘horizon of expectactions’ “. It means the book’s author try to use his/her works express some message, it can be the meaning of language, and which it also usually influenced by their environment, like government. However, the most interesting point is people got  different thinking caused by their different education and different belief  in the “interactive” between them and the language.  This thinking may cause people improve themselves, for example, my first languare is chinese, so when I learning english, I usually think about “why this word meaning that ?”, it may encourage me to know the word’s background.  I think this also is the reason why there are so much words from other culture in much language, assimilate and create.

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