But how are we to interpret the symbolism of other cultures; how can we crack their symbolic codes?

The Nri had a taboo symbolic code with six types.

They are, after all, highly synthetic creations, laboriously patched together at least in part from the symbolic codes and formal paraphernalia of another time.

The compy recognized it as a standard symbolic code, an old binary communication used by Earth robots a long time ago.

Kistelle and his men of evil had not designed their symbolic code.

They also refer outside the text to the cultural and symbolic codes that the reader (Balzac's, if not Barthes's) might be expected to know.

The use and understanding of visual images is governed by socially established symbolic codes.

For native speakers, the dominant symbolic code will be their language which is divided into spoken and written forms.

Language is a symbolic code, designed to convey meaning from one human mind to another.

So he used their symbolic code to record his own Russian notes.