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- Title
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AS A SECULAR HISTORIC ARTIFACT OR SACRED RELIGIOUS TEXT: USING MODROVICH V. ALLEGHENY COUNTY TO ILLUSTRATE HOW WORDS CREATE REALITY.
- Authors
Sinsheimer, Ann
- Abstract
Summarizes the theory of ideograph of rhetorical theorist Michael Calvin McGee. Limitation of the potential meanings of an ideograph; Significance of studying the vocabulary used by a particular community in the identification of the belief systems operating within that community; Illustration on the effectiveness of ideographic analysis on the evaluation of legal reasoning by the case of Modrovich against Allegheny County in Pennsylvania.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; PICTURE-writing; MCGEE, Michael Calvin; VOCABULARY; LEGAL reasoning
- Publication
University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class, 2005, Vol 5, Issue 2, p325
- ISSN
1554-4796
- Publication type
Article