Sentences with phrase «symbolic function»

Gold has served monetary and symbolic functions since before the beginning of recorded history.
This version of symbolic functioning allows a comparison between the interpretation of a sense presentation such as the sight of lightning and linguistic expression such as the word «tree».
Either way, the findings suggest that these beads, like jewelry today, served a fully symbolic function, the team concludes.
It is easy to underestimate the significant symbolic function which the news anchorperson fulfils in our present society.
As the show information reads: «The robust symbolic function of the egg adds further complication.
Diversity on the Court also serves an important symbolic function, making clear that legal institutions and the law itself are now open and responsive to groups that once were excluded or marginalized.
The pictures tease out symbolic functions of objects (cross-shaped handles, reflections, traffic arrows), thriving on details and textures, parts, rather than wholes.
However one may come down on that, I would agree with Paul Althaus that there is a third function of the orders in relation to the kingdom of God, and that is the symbolic function.
One of the symbolic functions of the creation accounts themselves is to give positive value to time and to provide the staging for history.
The symbolic function of creation in valuing time and history becomes clearer when the Genesis accounts are compared with myths whose purpose is to legitimate cyclical time (as in the Babylonian myth of the primeval conquest of Tiamat by Marduk, alluded to in Genesis 1:2), or to those in which time itself is a negative aspect of a fallen order (as in Plato's myth of the fall of the soul, or similar myths favored by Hindu and Buddhist mysticism).
for the possibility of his first version of symbolic functioning: «The species from which the symbolic reference starts is called the «species of symbols,» and the species with which it ends the «species of meanings.»
In the first version of symbolic functioning a kind of «error» seems to arise when expectations are disappointed, for example, when the sound of thunder fails to follow the flash of lightning.
Whitehead's second version of symbolic functioning is very different from the first.
The plot awkwardly tries to work in a slasher villain, and while his presence does serve a symbolic function, his M.O. is at turns silly and confusing.
Plus, these lonely towers serve any number of symbolic functions.
In these activities, learners are presented with a real - world context along with a matching simulation and symbolic function.
Or you can present them with a symbolic function and ask them to generate a real - world example of that function.
For instance, learners can be presented with a simulation and asked to write a symbolic function that models it.
Conspicuously absent from this agenda was color's symbolic function....
CATOPTROPHILIA (2013) is a 3D animation structured around the encounter between two objects, belonging to distant time periods, but connected through their complex set of symbolic functions: an Egyptian hand mirror from the New Kingdom (XV.
This gesture, which is enhanced through the transformation of the gallery into a darkened void, offers an immersive opportunity for reflection on the visual language of architecture, as the forms lose their symbolic function in the space of the museum.
For the duration of their stay at RUPERT, Kate Brown and Maurin Dietrich will work to further develop their shared curatorial aims: a critical investigation of the symbolic function of narrative in contemporary art practices, particularly female narratives and theories of interiority, and the feminine voice in storytelling.
In these works Richter further explored ways in which to undermine the representational responsibility of colour, seeking new means to separate it from traditional descriptive or symbolic functions.
In play therapy the symbolic function of play is what is so important, providing children with a means of expressing their inner world.
«To Enter One's Skin»: The Concrete and Symbolic Functions of the Skin in the Social Unconscious, as Expressed in Fairy Tales and Group Therapy, International Journal of Group Psychotherapy, 66 (2): 205 - 224
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