This select group of artists has brilliantly illuminated this territory, by using their own psychic signs to reshape the shared symbol of our city.
It is a registry of shared symbols and connotations.
Studying how people communicate in novel settings provides a window into the mechanisms supporting the human competence to rapidly generate and understand novel shared symbols, a fundamental property of human communication.
During the Dayton Accords negotiations, the BiH delegation and I struggled for a Ministry to safeguard shared symbols and expressions of culture and heritage.
Rather than taking the ideological basis of kinship for granted or assuming it to be of less importance than strategic interests related to status and property, Schneider examined kinship as a cultural system that is based in shared symbols and meanings.
Such artifacts can range from books and videotapes that tacitly embody shared cultural understandings to statistical tools and socially shared symbols embodying, for instance, a "language of thinking" that includes such finely distinguished terms as hypothesis, conjecture, theory, and guess.
Today, shared symbols, shared institutions, shared visions are so distant as to be inconceivable.
Since 2001, when riots revealed how little whites and Asians mixed in some northern cities and September 11th showed how useful shared symbols like flags can be, this enquiry has become more urgent.
Like history, a flag is a dialogue between the individual and the group -- with personal dreams, insignia and mottos becoming the pool from which shared symbols are chosen.
Thus I learned the secret that printers have known since Caxton: if you aim to create a shared culture using shared symbols, those symbols, no matter how detailed, must be consistent.
