Tense Times: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture (Rhetoric, Cult
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- Tense Times: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in US Crisis Culture
- ISBN
- 9780817360870
- Subject Area
- Language Arts & Disciplines
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- Tense Times : Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in Us Crisis Culture
- Publisher
- University of Alabama Press
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Subject
- Communication Studies, General, Rhetoric
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Series
- Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Ser.
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- Textbook
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- eBook
- Language
- English
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- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 182 Pages
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How the syntax used in US political discourse creates the very crises it describes 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. Past. Present. Future. These are the three principal verb tenses--the category of syntax that allows us to discuss time--that account for much of what is written about our crisis culture. Lee M. Pierce invites readers to expand their syntactic inventory beyond tense to include aspect (duration) and mood (attitude). Doing so opens new possibilities for understanding crisis discourse, as Pierce demonstrates with close readings of three syntaxes: the historical present, the past imperfective, and the retroactive subjunctive. Each mode produces a different experience of crisis and can help us understand our current political reality. The book investigates a dozen widely circulated discourses from the past decade of US political culture, from Beyoncé's controversial hit single "Formation" to the presidential campaign slogans of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, from the dueling rallies of Glenn Beck and Jon Stewart at the National Mall to the Ground Zero Mosque controversy and the 2007-2008 bailout. Taking a comparative approach that integrates theories of syntax from rhetorical, literary, affect, and cultural studies as well as linguistics, computer science, and Black studies, Tense Times suggests that the public's conjuring of crisis is not inherently problematic. Rather, it is the openness of that crisis to contingency--the possibility that things could have been otherwise--that ought to concern anyone interested in language, politics, American culture, current events, or the direction this country is headed.
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University of Alabama Press
ISBN-10
0817360875
ISBN-13
9780817360870
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22060626006
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Number of Pages
182 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Tense Times : Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in Us Crisis Culture
Publication Year
2023
Subject
Communication Studies, General, Rhetoric
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Language Arts & Disciplines
Series
Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique Ser.
Format
eBook
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Item Weight
0 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
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23/Eng/20230313
eBook Format
Portable Document Format
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"Pierce's approach to cultural analysis brings together rhetorical and critical theory in fresh ways while always attending to close reading and careful textual analysis of cultural events." --Sharon J. Kirsch, author of Gertrude Stein and the Reinvention of Rhetoric
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Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
808
Lc Classification Number
P301
Copyright Date
2023
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