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Symbolic Speech: A Message From Mind To Mind, James Mcgoldrick

James M McGoldrick Jr.

Some expressive conduct is treated as speech, and some as just conduct, but there is no clear way to tell them apart. A gesture of a middle finger thrust into the air, directed from one driver to another driver, seems to be speech at its purest form without either noise or tangible remains. The message moves effortlessly from enclosed metal and glass across lanes of traffic into the enclosed space of another, all with little difficulty, yet with great force and often psychic injury. Still, no one would think that all of the symptoms of road rage–tailgating, aggressive lane changes, …