"symbolic function" is a correct phrase in written English and can be used in a sentence.
It refers to the use of symbols or symbolic elements to convey a deeper meaning or message. Example: The dove in the painting served a symbolic function, representing peace and harmony within the chaotic scene.
Guns, however, have an almost entirely symbolic function.
Here the animals or plants possess a symbolic function.
In China today, Internet addiction has acquired a symbolic function that is about more than health.
Since the time of Alexandria, libraries have held a symbolic function.
Here, birds have a far broader symbolic function, and have long been the subject of major artworks.
By the former he meant the monarchy, which has a symbolic function; by the latter he meant parliament and government.
We construct a functional calculus for symbolic functions of "scattering pseudodifferential operators" on manifolds with boundary.
Davies adopts Nelson Goodman's account of symbolic functions that are aesthetic (a symbol functions aesthetically when it is syntactically dense, semantically dense, syntactically replete, and characterized by multiple and complex reference, which he takes to clarify the conditions under which a practice of making is a practice of artistic making (Davies 2004, Goodman 1968).
"The psychic and symbolic functions of the horse might be very different for the two sexes," said one artist, Deborah Bright.
The individual parts of the building the walls, columns, ceilings, vaults, and towers usually have pictorial and symbolic functions.
"So he not only has a political function but also a lot of symbolic functions that in other systems is shared out," said David M. Kennedy, a professor of history at Stanford.
