Chapter 5 meaning

Chapter 5 discussed the different ways in which we interpret media. First of all, it's important to remember that we are always interpreting media, though we aren't always aware we are doing so.

Chapter 5 broke up meaning into two separate domains.

1. The world itself 

2. The languages people use to describe it.

In this way meaning organizes the human world, and human beings live in a world of meanings. This concept is associated with 'polysemy', the fact that anything can have a variety of different meanings or interpretations.

There are also two theories associated with meanings:

1. Representational (object in the world)

2. Conceptual (in someone's mind)

Chapter 5 also went into great detail about codes, or the systematic organization or structure of signs. Codes of meaning in this way, ultimately produce the world we live in.

In summation, chapter 5 explained that people live in a world of meanings and interpretations organized by codes of differences.