The Li nationality costume not only has practical value, but also has very high aesthetic value. In the long historical process, Li ethnic costume has experienced a long development and evolution process, which embodies inevitable trend of our times. The Li nationality costume expresses that the Li people advocate the aesthetic meanings of nature, history, and life of the body. It has a lot of ...

the purpose of this study is to examine the meaning transformation of despotism signifier from safavid era to the rising of iranian despotism discourse in qajar era. the method is archaeology and the study is focused on the relations of the meaning transformation with discourse practices. pre-modern texts were investigated for the significance of despotism. the results suggested that these sign...

In order to identify the various meanings ascribed to health surveillance, the authors conducted a systematic review of articles published from January 1990 to August 2005 in the following databases: LILACS, SciELO, CAPES, MEDLINE, and Web of Science. A total of 144 abstracts were read and 18 full texts of Brazilian articles were selected for in-depth analysis, leading to the design of a typolo...

Food is a powerful cultural signifier. It can connote inclusiveness, belonging, attachment and be a symbolic expression of social binding. Similarly, food can signify exclusiveness, generate stereotypes and feelings of revulsion and disgust which demarcate boundaries between the us and the other. As Marcel Proust’s teasoaked sweet Madeleine illustrates, food can produce good memories as much as...

This article discusses the historical basis of creation symbolic images associated with color in Uzbek literature, role folklore folklore. Symbolic serve to enhance art, charm and impact folk songs. In songs, symbols have been explored using examples as a means expressing ideas clearly, succinctly, figuratively.

A symbolic version of an operation on values is a corresponding operation on program texts. For example, symbolic composition of two programs p, q yields a program whose meaning is the (mathematical) composition of the meanings of p and q. Another example is symbolic specialization of a function to a known first argument value. This operation, given the first argument, transforms a two-input pr...

The research presented in this paper shows that merely activating the idea of money affects the social behavior and social preferences of young children who do not understand the economic functions of money. From an economic point of view, money is universal, instrumental, and can be defined by the functions that it provides. From the psychological point of view, money is more symbolic and emot...