The relationship between Words and Meaning
After reading and taking notes on the starred portions of James Gee’s chapter on “Meaning and Ideology,” respond below.
Directions
What are cultural models and how do cultural models help us determine what words mean in particular contexts? Write two paragraphs in response to the reading.
Grading
This is class discussion work for our online course. Please post your response as a comment. These are due by Sunday at 11:59 p.m. during the Week they are assigned, making this one is due 10/11/20. A complete response is worth up to 15 points.
After reading ” meaning and ideology” by James Gee, I came to understand what theories are. I learned that theories can be overt or tactic. I learned what cultural models and how they shape our reality. Cultural models are theories, stories, images, metaphors which people try to simplify a complex reality to better understand it and accept it. Many words do not have fixed meanings so cultural models are used to make sure everyone has meanings. Cultural models also help organize new information and help with decision making. Cultural models are useful when trying to understand information and accept reality. Cultural models also allow the meaning of words to change as they’re being used in different scenarios. Cultural models are also used to settle differences, overall they are something we use on a daily and we take it for granted.
Cultural models are used for communication between different people. Cultural models also use theories because not all of us think the same way due to our own morals. Cultural models play an important role in society because it tells us what’s wrong and right and leads to moral decisions. Cultural models help us to determine words in context. It shows us how upside reality is.
After reading James Gee’s chapter, I have a clear understanding of cultural models. It is the simple way of understanding something in complex text. Everyday, people interpret things and change their context in another way, in order for them to comprehend. According to the chapter, cultural models are theories, stories, images, and metaphors. It is any literature device used to break down a text’s complexity. Words have many different meanings and this may cause confusion with people are from different regions. Cultural models are theories in which people adapt to in order to communicate. These theories are defined by interpretations and ideologies. These can also be put in context differently due to differences in beliefs, values, judgment, and based off knowledge. Everyone thinks differently so the upcoming of new terms is rapidly progressing. Cultural models are filters, which group new information by relevancy and influence our decision-making. We also use them to settle and reason, and to form opinions. It is actually a mental tool that we develop.
After reading James Gee’s chapter, I have a clear understanding of cultural models. It is the simple way of understanding something in complex text. Everyday, people interpret things and change their context in another way, in order for them to comprehend. According to the chapter, cultural models are theories, stories, images, and metaphors. It is any literature device used to break down a text’s complexity. Words have many different meanings and this may cause confusion with people are from different regions. Cultural models are theories in which people adapt to in order to communicate. These theories are defined by interpretations and ideologies. These can also be put in context differently due to differences in beliefs, values, judgment, and based off knowledge. Everyone thinks differently so the upcoming of new terms is rapidly progressing. Cultural models are filters, which group new information by relevancy and influence our decision-making. We also use them to settle and reason, and to form opinions. It is actually a mental tool that we develop.
Cultural models allow people to understand words differently in different contexts and to even understand new uses of a word for new contexts. Different people and cultures have different contexts in which they use words and cultural models are ways to make it simpler to understand these things. People learn cultural models through talk and interaction in their environments. We do not all learn how to speak or what wording or language to use in school, a lot of us pick up the way we speak by listening to those who surround us. Cultural models help us get a sense of community supporting the meanings of words and the shared communication of people.
Cultural models help us understand what words mean by listening to their context. As shown in the text, the word “coffee” when surrounded by other words such as “spilled,” and then by its form of cleanup (either a broom or a mop) goes on to show what the coffee stands for. Different types of people depending on their surroundings, will have their own way of saying things or referring to items. Cultural models help us see what words are the right ones or the wrong ones to use since they are there to simplify these concepts for us.
After reading James Gee’s chapter on meaning and ideology I was introduced to the concept of cultural models. Cultural models is a simplified/easy way of thinking about something that is complicated. Some examples include everyday theories, stories, images, metaphors in which people use in order to better their understanding towards something. We tend to adjust to these cultural models interactions in society, specifically the media and conversing in general. Cultural models also partake in beliefs, values, thoughts and judgements. Due to cultural models the meaning of words tend to change as they’re being used in different scenarios. Cultural models are also used to settle differences, overall they are something we use on a daily and don’t even recognize it.
We believe that everyone has the same ideas and concepts but we’ll never really know because we all think in private, this is then what creates the idea of theories. Cultural models play a big role with theories, they use the word theories since not all of us think the same way due to our own morals. This is when cultural models come to play, cultural models help us better understand something from a different perspective. Cultural models play an important role in society because it tells us what’s wrong and right and lead to moral decisions. Overall cultural models are simplifications of reality, society has adapted to this environment and no one really thinks much of it.
Cultural models are subject to interpretations of the meanings of words, in different situations, contexts and ways. Due to beliefs, values, thoughts, and judgments the meanings have multiple interpretations, these interpretations are called theories. When the theories are made by ordinary people, they are common theories, which can be like professional theories that are more specialized and developed. In any area, such as commercial or judicial meanings have a fundamental role in interpretation, based on an interest. Due to the variety of meanings, they are subject to negotiation. Therefore, cultural models are everyday theories adapted to a social environment, defined by moral and ethical decisions, social interpretations, ideology of our thoughts, the development of new terms or set of words has led the standard language to a language of the community or local environment that interprets meanings and constantly changes them. Our beliefs, values, knowledge, and interpretations of meanings have led to change the way of thinking, speaking, and writing in society but we can always rely on our own experiences to detect and change what is wrong.
The author explains the interpretive options that meanings have and how they develop in an educational-social context. It also develops in detail the proper use of certain terms that can be misinterpreted, explaining them with examples. The use of meanings and their influence on society has led the author to explain the problems that a misinterpretation can lead to, such as the case of the “sausage” or the Pope. The author develops the variety of meanings that we can find in different social environments and names them for a better understanding. Not all words are interpreted in the same way and not all consider it the same. A new human group implies new ideologies and moral and ethical decisions.
Cultural models according to James Gee’s chapter are theories, stories, images, metaphors which people try to simplify a complex reality to better understand it and deal with it. People pick up cultural models through interactions in society and don’t think all that much about them. Cultural models that words have fixed meanings in terms of definition stored in peoples heads is similar to a theory elaborated much farther. Theories are important because people hold theories about all sorts of things. In addition, cultural models help categorize new information and help with decision making. Cultural models are useful when trying to understand information and form your opinions on a topic. Us humans, have lots of cultural models about different things and we try to find new information and build theories in what we believe in. Also, those models constrain how people think about a specific problem and the solutions they can see.
Cultural models help us determine what words mean in particular contexts because they help break down words into simpler meanings so that people can understand better what they mean. Cultural models also help people understand words differently in different contexts and help to understand new uses of words.
Cultural models are theories,stories,images,metaphors or any device that people use to simplify complexity. Many words does not have a fixed meaning ,so cultural models are used to acknowledge the words in different context and different various situations in life. Cultural models are elevated theories that people think in their heads to achieve a simple meaning for a word in such different contexts. Words definitions may cause for such negotiations between people because of their many meanings to people of a particular community or beliefs. Cultural models are the ideology in which we see through our world.
Cultural models help us to determine words in context by giving us specific examples of how one word can be used in different concepts of our life. In addition, cultural models makes us realize no words or dialect are wrong based upon the different cultures,beliefs and values that the world has. Lastly, cultural models teaches new words and their understandings in different context from the others.
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