Speech has shaped human cognition and society through symbolic thought.

Over 35,000 years, these separate groupings developed verbal and symbolic communication with the available genetic makeup. Communication led to the formation of many facets that are now associated ...

The work focuses on how social value systems manifested themselves, were visualised, and rendered permanent; but also were attacked and changed by ‚symbolic' communication - as opposed to ...

Skip to content viewer section. This paper is about politics and communication in a Ghanaian traditional setting. It focuses on ɔhene tene (the Akan chiefly procession) as a single act of ...

This television series can be described in terms of the "poetic motive of symbolic communication'' (K. Burke), i.e., an expression of humanity's intrinsic pleasure in creating symbols. If the function ...

Some primates, like chimpanzees and bonobos, share up to 98 percent of our DNA and exhibit remarkable communication skills. They use gestures, vocalizations, and even some rudimentary symbolic ...