Sentences with phrase «same symbolic meaning»

For example (1) receiving a peeled and segmented orange from a parent in West Bengal has much the same symbolic meaning as verbally praising a child in North America; (2) hissing at a woman in St. Kitts, West Indies is roughly equivalent to giving a wolf - whistle in the in the U. S. — both behaviors express a man's sexual admiration for a woman.

Not exact matches

It is characteristic of language that many different symbolic systems can be used to express roughly the same world of meanings.

The departments are all the same but have taken on symbolic meaning.

For in the sense in which he uses the term «literal» in the other passages in which he affirms the same categorial terms to have a literal rather than either a symbolic or an analogical meaning, it means nothing other than «univocal» (although, as we shall see presently, this is not the only sense in which he uses the term «literal»).

But if gameplay shares the same functional basis as these other symbolic structures that define local norms while respecting their own intrinsic rules and principles, it might mean that gameplay also comes with its own set of meta - principles that would actually help us design games!

«An image may be charged with cultural or symbolic meaning and completely devoid of such meaning at the same time, and this dialectic is fundamental to my work,» says Geva.

Pedro Matos chooses to explore lines, trying to give to light that same lyric and beauty of their symbolic complexity and meaning.

(See culture, culture learning) Equivalence of meaning — Refers to qualitatively different symbolic behaviors that share essentially the same underlying meaning.