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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"symbolic communication"”.
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Understanding Symbolic Communication
We quantitatively study the emergence of symbolic communication in humans with a communication game that attempts to recapitulate an essential step in the development of human language: the emergence of shared abstract symbols in order to accomplish complex tasks. In our experimental setup, a …
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The Use of Fantasy Theme Analysis to Describe the Group Communication and Creative Problem-Solving Skills of University-Level Students as They Prepare for Destination Imagination Global Finals Competition
… pinpoint, however, and several aspects of group communication and skills, need to be re-examined using communication theory. The purpose of this study is to describe one of those aspects—group creative problem-solving—in order to see how the communication used in that process affects the group …
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Patterns in Seal Iconography: A Frequency Model
… thesis reflects how seals were utilized in early symbolic communication and to display cultural identities.
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Dynamic Relations Within and Between Early Communication Proficiencies and Key Skill Elements' Growth Trajectories of Infants and Toddlers
… childhood, of which proficiency in expressive communication is requisite to children’s cognitive and social development. Identification of communication and language delays must be made as early as possible to inform appropriate intervention services targeting prevention of childhood …
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Sex! Aliens! Harvard? Rhetorical boundary-work in the media (a case study of the role of journalists in the social construction of scientific authority)
… tool in this study, to excavate the landscape of symbolic communication. The aim of this study is to illuminate ambiguity, complexity, motives and meanings in this case. It is intended to be thought provoking, instructive, and productive, to enrich the ongoing examination of the cultural roles of …
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Exploring the processes of change in individual cognitive behavioural therapy for bulimia nervosa from the patients’ perspectives : a grounded theory study
… physical and psychological realities. This symbolic communication via the body, however, was not experienced as metaphors but rather as actual reality, which affected the change processes in several ways. The processes of de-fusion of the sense of self and therapeutic change in the BN seemed …
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The role of caregiver-reported emerging social attention in predicting duration of orienting and social communication
… atypical attention, social attention, and social communication development emerge in infancy, yet age at diagnosis of neurodevelopmental difficulties does not typically occur until well after the first year of life. In order to achieve this goal of early identification, sensitive and accessible …
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die sah man weinen. The Representation of Emotion and Dispute in Middle High German Heroic Epic
… of the role played by displays of emotion as symbolic communication within heroic narrative, demonstrating that such displays are a primary means by which status and identity is expressed and established. In chapter two, I contextualize these displays within a semi-standardized progression of …
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Coming Out of Childhood: Adolescents and Art Therapy
… therapy allows for personal expression and symbolic communication of the self through the use of symbols, imagery and metaphors. Besides providing an opportunity for self- identification and self-expression, art can channel impulses into productive activity. Art therapy, then, is a viable …
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Honey Bee Communication: The Dance-Language Controversy
… with specific odor information as well as with symbolic distance and direction coordinates. Since recruited bees seem able to find food on the basis of site-specific locale odors alone, a conclusive test would be one in which the dancer gave symbolic directions to a location to which it had …