Language use in our daily life normally exists in a simple way of both spoken and written aspects. However, it doesn’t quite apply to literary work. As culler mentioned, “Meaning is context-bound, but context is boundless.” Language itself seems not simple when it occurs in a literary work with a certain context which involves author’s experience and historical circumstance. It functions in diversity not only a property of a text but also a kind of deep reflection based on specific context. Readers have to analyze and think hard the language used in a work through connecting the language to the context, so as to understand meaning of a literary work by specific expressions of language. The process of understanding work will be an interesting experience of exploring more unknown knowledge that relates to the work and supposing a lot on contents work that plant to reflect. So language in different situations makes meaning diverse, it definitely engages readers to consider language and meaning broadly.

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