Lecture 9 :
--Gee summarizes two types of meaning :
1-A situated meaning : is an image or pattern that we assemble “on the spot” as we communicate in a given context, based on our construal of that context and on our past experiences.
--Situated meanings don’t simply reside in individual minds; very often they are negotiated between people in and through communicative social interaction.
--Words like “work” and “coffee” seem to have more general meanings than are apparent in the sorts of situated meanings we have discussed so far. This is because
words are also associated with what called “cultural models.”
--Cultural models are “storylines,” families of connected images (like a mental movie), or (informal) “theories” shared by people belonging to specific social or cultural groups