Tense Times: Rhetoric, Syntax, and Politics in Us Crisis Culture - Pierce, Lee M.
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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.

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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.
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Lee M. Pierce is assistant professor of rhetorical communication at the State University of New York (SUNY) Geneseo.