Symbolic communication in the form of language underlies our unique ability to reason—or so the conventional wisdom holds. A new study published today in Science, though, suggests our capacity ...

These evolutions underscore the dynamic and malleable nature of symbolic communication, where meaning is continuously negotiated within social, political, and technological frameworks.

"Everything is built on an evolutionary layer, and if it all goes back to one simple gesture that hints at the seeds of symbolic communication then that I think is a very important message." ...

Human civilization depends on our ability to preserve and transmit knowledge through structured, symbolic communication. As philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein famously wrote, “The limits of my ...

The symbolic approach to corporate culture is used to build the company brand while organizing and defining the workplace. Physical symbols range from name tags to awards that build company identity.

Portable sensors and artificial intelligence are helping researchers decode animal communication—and begin to talk back to nonhumans ...

They use gestures, vocalizations, and even some rudimentary symbolic communication. However, their vocal anatomy is less flexible, and their cognitive capacities for syntactic and abstract ...

Arguing against those who would separate the social world into the material and the symbolic, communication scholars increasingly assert that communication matters in social life precisely because it ...

These dances include features similar to the symbolic communication we’re familiar with in our language, such as “displacement,” or the capacity to reference things that are not physically ...