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A text written with symbols is a symbolic text, such as mathematical expressions or calculations.
Colburn (2000, 1999) denies that the symbolic text itself has any causal effect; it is its physical manifestation, the thing on the disk, which has such an effect.
Co-selection of visual with graphic record leads to a choice of images, between pictures or diagrams; verbal with graphic record leads to a choice of verbal text or symbolic text (such as mathematical formulae).
On the contrary, interpreted in the social context of Northern African societies at the beginning of the 21st century, this symbolic text can become an important source of empowerment and emancipative inspiration for young female business students and entrepreneurs.
Thus, rather than an immediate communication act between the (historical) author (of the 2nd, 3rd or 7th century) and the contemporary reader, spiritual texts (as symbolic text) are opening-up the space for on-going re-interpretation and appropriation.
I doubt many people have done this, you might even get arrested, but it's more of a symbolic text.
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Finally, symbolic texts have to be empowered against their monopolization, possession, and instrumentalisation by religious systems.
One significance for classroom discourse is that verbal texts can be repeated orally by reading aloud, whereas symbolic texts must be recast as spoken language.
The symbolic texts of Qu'ran and Haddith may empower young female entrepreneurs to liberate themselves from the prevailing formal or informal limitations based in certain tribal cultural traditions of their business context.
As Paul Ricoeur's hermeneutical approach makes clear, symbolic texts - beyond their potential 'contextual' possession (and sometimes even instrumentalization) by religious hierarchies or even abuse by (totalitarian) pseudo-religious groups - may rather serve as a source of inspiration for individual actors and business leaders in their potentially very heterogeneous business context.
Psychological tools are the symbolic cultural artifacts—signs, symbols, texts, formulae, and most fundamentally, language that enable us to master psychological functions like memory, perception, and attention in ways appropriate to our cultures.
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