content Meanings that can be derived from specialized or interpretative knowledge about what objects depicted in an image represents. Based on contextual, cultural or technical knowledge of objects, motives and symbols, filtered through individual experience. Interpretation of X-rays or medical imagery Activities performed

symbol is a term. a term or an index which has some paradoxical meanings, in addition to its conventional meaning. symbols are not innovated, they come from human's creative dreams and imaginations and they show unknown things.old men didn't think about their symbols, they lived with them. so we, as interpreters of dreams, should pay attention not only to the symbol by itself, but als...

The way by which people communicate each other changes in the different cultures due to the different communicative expectations and depending on their cultural backgrounds. The development of the Internet has caused an increasing use of computer systems by people from different cultures, highlighting the need for interaction systems that adapt the interaction according to the cultural backgrou...

This article looks at two libraries founded in 1934 as counter-symbols to the Nazi book burning: the German Freedom Library in Paris and the American Library of Nazi-Banned Books at the Brooklyn Jewish Center in New York. It describes these two libraries as agents of cultural memory, as privileged sites for redefining German, German-Jewish, and Jewish-American cultural identity in times of radi...

Kyoto is a miniature of Japan; through centuries of experience and persistence, it has maintained the symbols of the country’s civil and cultural identity. The city has demonstrated a collection of Japan’s noble identity and characteristics through its material and spiritual heritage. Kyoto’s rich history and its position have gathered a collection of religion-based works, artistic innovations,...

Through the research on application of regional cultural symbols in logo design local museums, this paper summarizes general methods museums. and analysis existing literature cases related to Museum signs, based Saussure's "signifier" semiotics, relationship between signs is analyzed, problems development construction refining visual are studied, And then innovative with characteristics.

This study uses content analysis and visual representation methods to explore how multiculturalism is displayed on the websites of agencies providing social care for the aged. These agencies use strategically planned texts to portray multicultural categories of inclusion, diversity and individuality; and emphasize the text referents through ethno-related pictures as universal equivalence symbol...

While social learning and communication are both widespread in non-human animals, social learning by communication is probably human specific. Humans can and do transmit generic knowledge to each other about animal and artefact kinds, conventional behaviours to be used in specific situations, arbitrary referential symbols, cognitively opaque skills, and know-how embedded in means-end actions. T...

Sociologists often describe culture as a repertoire of shared understandings. But because the meanings that social actors attribute to symbols and actions emerge from the multiple associations they make between them, delineating collectively shared understandings is not a straightforward task. Standard quantitative sociological practice, which relies on the assumptions of what Abbott (1988) cal...