Sentences with phrase «of symbolic communication»

For this reason we can say that revelation universally has the character of symbolic communication.

It's not a happy thought, that a leading textbook in intercultural communication is accompanied by an instructor's guide that suggests having students undertake an act of symbolic communication of a kind that early Christian saints went to their deaths as martyrs rather than commit.

The directness of the relationship is established not only through the mediation of the senses, e.g. the concrete meeting of real living persons, but also through the mediation of the «word,» i.e. the mediation of those technical means and those fields of symbolic communication, such as language, music, art, and ritual, which enable men ever again to enter into relation with that which is over against them.

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Because the relation between symbols and the things they stand for is arbitrary, symbolic etiquette is a powerful means of communication.

The rationality, or mind, or symbolic communication, or self - awareness — call the evolutionary uniqueness of man by whatever name you prefer — has made him by far the most successful biological species.

Yet there is no trace of communication by learned symbolic languages among reptiles, of hair or feathers among amphibians, of the auditory apparatus of land vertebrates, or of legs or wings, among the fish.

It is useful to keep these several modulations of hope in mind in order to avoid a one - sided emphasis on the notion of revelation as symbolic communication.

Thus their communication code, full of references to food, the farm, the rural landscape, human anatomy, death, the physical world, and the supernatural, contains messages and is indicative of a system of symbolic expression that validates and identifies these southern Black rural (peasant) migrants apart from a wider society» (Community in a Black Pentecostal Church, 175).

At the extremes the papal Church itself has still not entirely shed the mantle of imperial Rome; and the Gospel fundamentalists and evangelicals still sometimes lack ascertainable norms, and appropriate symbolic and sacramental channels of communication.

As might be expected in a society in which white Anglo - Saxon Protestants are slow to recognize their own ethnicity, the first, and still the best, ethnographies of congregations are Samuel Heilman's study of an orthodox synagogue and Melvin Williams's description of a black Pentecostal church.71 Heilman and Williams conclusively demonstrate the power of even small, marginal congregations to generate among themselves a rich symbolic communication that gives each its meaning and cohesion.

But there is also a new middle class, based on the production and distribution of symbolic knowledge, whose members are the increasingly large number of people occupied with education, the media of mass communication; therapy in all its forms, the advocacy and administration of well - being, social justice and personal lifestyles.

Viewing politics as communications, however, is an assertion that the specific content which should be most studied, described, and analyzed in order to understand politics is that of our political «conversations» — overt and covert, symbolic and concrete.

Protestantism, which can be characterized as a movement of the word, led the way in the shift from symbolic communication of the medieval era to the verbal communication of the modern era.

This communication is re-enacted in the sacraments of the Baptism and the Holy Supper, both of which are symbolic manifestation of the solidarity bond, forged among the people through Jesus their Messiah.

Far from being merely a neutral communication medium, television in America has become an integrated symbolic world filling the socially functional role demanded of it both by its viewers and its advertisers.

That communication, or signaling, is what archaeologists and anthropologists call symbolic behavior, and it's why ochre use is often cited as a proxy for the cognitive ability of the people who used it.

Previous work has shown the birds are capable of everything from symbolic communication to rudimentary math.

Symbolic communication in the form of language underlies our unique ability to reason — or so the conventional wisdom holds.

Evidence in support of the first hypothesis would need to cite demonstrations of how symbolic reference, as used by humans, could evolve from functional reference, as observed in other animal communication systems.

The Arts communicate in non-linguistic, expressive ways, culturally, and through symbol and metaphor (Wiggans, 2009; Wright, 2003) Wright highlights the non-linguistic nature of artistic expression and communication stating that the Arts «involve expressive and symbolic modes of thinking, understanding and knowing, and communicate ideas in a unique manner... they enable us to «say» things to each other that can not be expressed in any other way» (Wright, 2003, p. 17).

Apart from these, other computer science dissertation topics such as software engineering, computer networking and communication, database systems, artificial intelligence, computer graphics, operating systems, and numerical and symbolic computation are also considered to be important to this field of study.Through the versatility of the subject, you can surmise that it requires a lot of hard work and consistent practice to acquire perfection in writing academic documents.

The colors and graphics on the balloons coincidently mimic those used by indigenous peoples of the Americas, rendering the installation a symbolic gesture «demonstrating the interconnectedness of the Western Hemisphere by recognizing the land, indigenous peoples, history, relationships, movement, and communication.»

Scharf plumbs the psychological wells of collective myths for symbolic content: the crown of thorns, the ladder, the fish, and the cross can be found throughout, functioning not, as one might expect, as religious symbols, but rather as a means through which to access a deeper, symbolic level of visual communication.

A number of non-human animals, including the great apes, cetaceans (i.e. dolphins and whales), elephants, and parrots, exhibit characteristics and tendencies consistent with that of a person's traits like self - awareness, intentionality, creativity, symbolic communication, and many others.

I traded e-mails this morning with a communications director from a major climate NGO who said this about the whole current «discussion»: Kind of symbolic of how much time the community spends talking about how to communicate science versus actually trying to communicate science.

Block 1 The Essence of Modern Group Process Block 2 Forming a Group Block 3 Introduction to Group Resistances Block 4 Transference / Countertransference Issues in Group Block 5 Technical and Special Issues in Group Psychotherapy Block 6 Working with Pre-oedipal Patients in Group Block 7 Specialized Topics in Countertransference Block 8 Working with Unconscious Material: Dreams Symbolic and Non-verbal Communications Block 9 Resolving Transference Resistances and Termination Issues

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Couples» communication includes the symbolic language of words, micro-expressions, body language, tone of voice, and other elements.

Based on meticulous research of the core areas of ASD — communication, socialization, emotional regulation, and symbolic development — the authors offer practical guidelines for intervention designed for children with autism and their families.

Figure 9.9 Motor milestones and communication and symbolic behaviour scale scores by main carers» knowledge of early child development