Lecture 12:
--Cultural models “explain,” relative to the standards of the group, why words have the various situated meanings they do and fuel their ability to grow more.
--Cultural models are usually not completely stored in any one person’s head.
-- Cultural models distributed across the different sorts of “expertise” and viewpoints found in the group.
--Cultural models link to each other in complex ways to create bigger and bigger storylines.
--networks of cultural models help organize the thinking and social practices of sociocultural groups.
-- Cultural models continually revised and developed (consciously and unconsciously) in interaction with others in the group, as well as through exposure to various books and other media.