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Peer reviewedMoore, Mark P. – Communication Quarterly, 1994
Identifies and discusses divergent synecdochal representations of the handgun as vital to both the construction and maintenance of competing social realities (handgun as threatened liberty and handgun as threatened life) in the debate over the Brady Bill. Demonstrates how such representations serve as divergent rhetorical constructs for competing…
Descriptors: Communication Research, Discourse Analysis, Federal Legislation, Gun Control
