L’Âne de Flaubert by Geneviève Mondon

“…Dans le domaine des idées religieuses et des symboles, c’est Isis, la toute puissante déesse de L’Âne d’or, que l’on retrouve dans la création flaubertienne de Tanit.…”
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Castle Lite by Ron Irwin

“…SABMiller’s approach to bolster sales was to build a narrative around the brand that moved away from the concept of ‘light’, or ‘low calorie’, or even ‘low alcohol’ and reframe the consumer perception of this beer around the symbolic value of ‘Extra Cold Refreshment’. This article examines the means through which Castle Lite consumers were invited to form a unique, imagined community of beer drinkers through a number of media formats. …”
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L’authenticité par la mise en scène. Analyse dialogique des activités touristiques et culturelles de la place Jemaa El Fna et de leurs représentations by Thibault Danteur

“…La place Jemaa El Fna de Marrakech est un symbole qui représente l’identité du Maroc et de la ville rouge. …”
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D’Astarté à Tanit by Geneviève Mondon

“…Il a transposé les rites et les symboles de son culte ésotérique. Lucien est un témoin oculaire, observateur et précis, mais aussi un esprit critique qui ne parle pas en adepte de cette religion. …”
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L’économie de la responsabilité sociétale d’entreprise (RSE) :éléments de méthode institutionnaliste by Jean-Pierre Chanteau

“…The first part presents the analysis framework of symbolic quality signals that aim at characterizing the criteria of a quality, proving compliance and making it competitive. …”
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L’intimité, la fiabilité et les paroles des femmes : quand les violences conjugales rencontrent les institutions by Alessandra Gribaldo

“…Pressing charges and speaking out means taking the floor as a legal subject in order to demand justice and to speak in legal terms has a decisive, effective and symbolic value in the definition of victimhood. Nonetheless the pressure on the victim to speak about the factual events, about herself and her relationship with the perpetrator and to denounce him before the law has vast implications. …”
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Les monstres d’Aubrey Beardsley et le « grotesque darwinien » by Catherine Delyfer

“…The elusiveness and hybridity of fin-de-siècle identity are also captured in the various symbols late-Victorian artists created in order to represent themselves or their art : James Whistler’s signature butterfly, Odilon Redon’s foetuses and Aubrey Beardsley’s embryos are a few of the famous motifs which foreground the mutation and transformation processes which fascinated the imagination of Aesthetic and Decadent artists. …”
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Betumbang Apam Tradition as a Medium of Islamic Education: Clifford Geertz's Interpretative Analysis by Muhammad Ikhsan Fadil, Zulfa Jamalie, Asikin Nor

“…In the context of modernization, this tradition remains relevant because it strengthens people's religious understanding through deep symbolism. …”
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The Neverending 90s in Serbia by Nađa Bobičić, Vanja Petrović

“…Drawing on Judith Butler’s concept of gender phantasm and Andrea Pető’s concept of gender as symbolic glue, this analysis examines two documents: the 1992 “Warning” resolution and Patriarch Pavle’s 1995 Christmas message. …”
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DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PROBLEMS OF DEMOCRATIC LEGITIMACY by M. S. Zakharchenko

“…Taking into account Bourdieu’s theory about symbolic power author explains the processes of legitimization as well as the processes of institute’s delegitimization. …”
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HIJRA, BETWEEN SOCIOLOGICAL AND THEOLOGICAL PHENOMENON by Firmansyah Firmansyah

“…Hijrah principally is not just a matter of strengthening the religious values symbolically, but also the mission of building an open mind on social and religious plurality. …”
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The struggle and enrichment of play: Domestications and overflows in the everyday life of gamer parents by Ask Kristine, Sørenssen Ingvild Kvale, Moltubakk Stine Thordarson

“…The analysis investigates how gamer parents mediate play, with an emphasis on how games are interpreted, the family's player practices, and the role of gaming-related expertise in accordance with the three dimensions (symbolic, practice, cognitive) of domestication theory.…”
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Les mystérieuses antiquités de Prosper Biardot (1805–1873) by Angélique Allaire

“…His publications contain contrasting ideas fluctuating between very innovative positions on restorations and now outdated theories on the symbolism of the terracottas, which were part of the trends of the times. …”
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L’imaginaire thérapeutique des chocs à l’insuline by Coline Fournout

“…Feminist philosophy generally focuses on the pathologizing of women or gender minorities, as well as on the material and symbolic production of sexual deviance, i.e. on the inscription of psychiatric patients in social gender relations. …”
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“The Biggest Small Town in America”: Cross-generational Patterns of Monophthongization in the Suburban South by Marc-Philippe Brunet

“…We will be looking at how residents and speakers adapt to the change of their locale by analyzing the residents’ realization of a key linguistic variable, the diphthong /aɪ/, regarded as a prototypical feature of Southern speech laden with social as well as symbolic meaning. This investigation was conducted in the theoretical and methodological framework of the PAC Programme (Phonology of Contemporary English: usage, varieties and structure) and within the LVTI Project (Language, Urban Life, Work, Identity), based on recent sociolinguistic fieldwork data obtained in Middle Tennessee. …”
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Ewolucja statusu prawnego dzieci pozamałżeńskich w prawie szkockim (1836–2006) by Mateusz Szymura

“…This in turn lead to the abolition of “illegitimacy” as a characteristic of an individual resulting from the form of his parents’ relationship at the time of conception or birth of the child, which took place in the 21st century, which at that time was in fact a purely symbolic motion. The problem of discrimination against extramarital children is a universal one. …”
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Time Series Prediction Based on Complex-Valued S-System Model by Bin Yang, Wenzheng Bao, Yuehui Chen

“…Symbolic regression has been utilized to infer mathematical formulas in order to solve the complex prediction and classification problems. …”
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Cerámica monocroma esgrafiada/incisa de la Gran Nicoya (siglos i-xvi d.C.) by Gilles Desrayaud

“…Containers, figurines and musical instruments are decorated with fine figurative modellings and geometrical patterns of complex symbolical significances. After reexamining typology through the available bibliography, we carried out morphological seriations and an iconographic analysis, along with comparisons with ceramics and decorated artefacts from the same and neighbouring areas. …”
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Komunia z Bogiem istotą chrześcijańskiego powołania by Jerzy Wiesław Gogola

“…In the end of the process mystics enjoy anew a deep communion with God, but on the incomparably higher level than the initial one, which is most often represented through bridal symbolism. To achieve that stage requires the process described by mystics in terms of marital union with Christ. …”
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Inventorier et cartographier l’héraldique des municipalités portugaises : l’armorial de Cristóvão Alão de Morais by Miguel Metelo de Seixas

“…Based on an inventory of municipal emblems, Alão de Morais’s armorial was intended to contribute to the political and symbolic cartography of a monarchy in the process of rebuilding its identity.…”
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