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- Title
Hermeneutic Range in Church-State Deliberation: Cross Meanings in the Los Angeles County Seal Controversy.
- Authors
Waisanen, DonJ.
- Abstract
The removal of a cross from the Los Angeles County seal created an intense local controversy in 2004. Hearings between the region's Board of Supervisors and different publics demonstrated how individuals can make similar judgments throughhermeneutic range—or the various configurations of interpretive openness and closure that can be enacted in deliberation. Specifically, the interpretive leeway that audiences use in controversies constitutes one approach for understanding how discursive alliances may be formed. In this case, I constructed three different groups in the controversy, each corresponding to particular attributions of the monosemy or polysemy of history, religious symbols, and politics. Implications are charted for communication research and pedagogy.
- Subjects
POLYSEMY; HERMENEUTICS; ADMONITION; RELIGIOUS symbols; POLITICAL science; COMMUNICATIONS research
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2013, Vol 77, Issue 4, p361
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570314.2012.762802