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Direct linkDowns, Douglas – Written Communication, 2002
Critical discourse analysis of a 75,000-word corpus of newspaper articles, editorials, and letters to the editor reveals the presence of a cosmopolitan worldview-frame and its effects on representations of gun owners in the United States. This cosmopolitan worldview, which includes cultural frames of reliance on others, specialization, risk…
Descriptors: Weapons, World Views, Discourse Analysis, Risk
