Difficulties in interpretation of situation-bound utterances by Russian EFL students

This case study deals with interpretation of situation-bound utterances (SBU) by Russian EFL linguistics students. The results of the research show the importance of a actual situational context and students’ competence in interpretation of the utterances having high dependence on socio-cultural actual situational context. The paper also takes a general look at such a linguistic phenomenon as SBUs and ways to translate and interpret them by non-native speakers of English