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Symbolic communication - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (110 words) |
 | Symbolic communication is exchange of messages that change a priori expectation of events. |
| Examples of this are modern communication technology as also exchange of information amongst animals. |
| The behavior of weaver ant workers has been carefully studied and it has been found that communicative gestures with respect to members of the same colony and intruders is different. |
| General Symbol Machines: The First Stage in the Evolution of Symbolic Communication by Thomas E. Dickins (6424 words) |
| Symbols have distinctive properties that are not seen in other animal communication systems, and as a consequence, require an evolutionary explanation of their own. |
| Communication will be defined, in line with the common view from behavioural ecology (see Hauser, 1996), as the transfer of information from an actor to a reactor, such that the behavior of the reactor is changed. |
| As symbolic beings we might well realize that this is a symbol simply from the context in which the utterance is made but we would not have access to the conventions of what is, in fact, Hebrew linguistic culture and therefore we could not use the term symbolically. |
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