symbolic boundary

collocation in English

meaningsofsymbolicandboundary

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symbolic
adjective
uk
/sɪmˈbɒl.ɪk/us
/sɪmˈbɑː.lɪk/
representing ...
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boundary
noun[C]
uk
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/us
/ˈbaʊn.dər.i/
a real or imagined line that marks the edge or limit ...
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(Definition ofsymbolicandboundaryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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It provides, in other words, a ritual construction of self that integrates all believers and places asymbolicboundarybetween them and outsiders.
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Tidying up the language was a means of homogenizing the people, placing symbolic boundaries on them and their behaviour, and signalling the limits of order.
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The case clearly illustrates a rarely countenanced aspect of the ' distributional encounters ', but does so without identifying changing symbolic boundaries.
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The identification of women with conspicuous consumption intended to establish the symbolic boundaries of men's and women's spheres of action.
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Symbolic boundaries and internal boundaries would arise to replace the 'transcended' boundaries of political states.
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The strategy of singularization the text enacts in order to distinguish between different types of industrial activity is based on a series of carefully drawn symbolic boundaries.
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Goodman defines translation as a process ' ' that carries meaning across physical and symbolic boundaries, for it mediates the foreign and the familiar, abstract knowledge and local expression ' ' (xxi).
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Only when symbolic boundaries are widely agreed upon can they take on a constraining character and become social boundaries.
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Symbolic boundaries are conceptual distinctions made by social actorsthat separate people into groups and generate feelings of similarity and group membership.
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Symbolic boundaries are a necessary but insufficient condition for social change.
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The defenses of the castros do not seem to meet war needs, but of prestige and symbolic boundaries of the inhabited space.
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