Tense times: rhetoric, syntax, and politics in us crisis culture
Auteur :
Pierce, Lee M.
Éditeur :
The University of Alabama Press
ISBN :
9780817321673
Date de publication :
29 août 2023
Dimensions :
22,9 x 15,2 cm
Poids :
272 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
American public culture is obsessed with crisis. Political polarization, economic collapse, moral decline - the worst seems always yet to come and already here. Tense Times argues that the ways we discuss these crises, especially through verb tenses, not only contribute to our perception and description of such crises but create them.