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Author : Jenny Rice
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 38,58 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814214350
An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.
Author : Jenny Rice
Publisher :
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 10,50 MB
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814255797
An exploration of exaggerated cases of conspiracy theories which helps to reveal why traditional modes of argument fail against unwarranted, unsound, or untrue evidence.
Author : Josephine Tyler
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 34,78 MB
Release : 2024-05-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385256984
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Dinah Williams
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 0545909732
Terrible But True invites readers to explore some of the weird, fascinating, scary, and altogether strange stories from America's past. Think American history is all boring battles and snooze-worthy old dudes? Think again!Welcome to Terrible But True, where you'll dig deep into America's forgotten past to uncover some creepy, disgusting, and just plain bizarre stories. From America's first serial killers and deadly vampire-like diseases to haunted ghost ships and vicious river pirates, our nation's history is weirder than you could have ever imagined. So dive in and prepare to be shocked, because sometimes the truth is even stranger than fiction.
Author : Caddie Alford
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 2024
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0817361413
"An expansive and detailed reconsideration of what counts as an opinion in the age of social media"--
Author : Dana L. Cloud
Publisher :
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 25,16 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780814213612
"An analysis of truth claims in contemporary U.S. political rhetoric through a series of case studies--including the PolitiFact fact-checking project, the Planned Parenthood "selling baby parts" scandal, the Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden cases, Neil DeGrasse Tyson's Cosmos, and the Black Lives Matter movement"--
Author : Christa J. Olson
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,80 MB
Release : 2021-12-09
Category :
ISBN : 9780814214831
Analyzes how imagery and rhetoric of pan-American grandeur from 1845 to 1950 used Latin America as a foil for creating US national identity and a particular American way of feeling.
Author : Jennifer Rice
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2012-08-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0822978016
Urban sprawl is omnipresent in America and has left many citizens questioning their ability to stop it. In Distant Publics, Jenny Rice examines patterns of public discourse that have evolved in response to development in urban and suburban environments. Centering her study on Austin, Texas, Rice finds a city that has simultaneously celebrated and despised development. Rice outlines three distinct ways that the rhetoric of publics counteracts development: through injury claims, memory claims, and equivalence claims. In injury claims, rhetors frame themselves as victims in a dispute. Memory claims allow rhetors to anchor themselves to an older, deliberative space, rather than to a newly evolving one. Equivalence claims see the benefits on both sides of an issue, and here rhetors effectively become nonactors. Rice provides case studies of development disputes that place the reader in the middle of real-life controversies and evidence her theories of claims-based public rhetorics. She finds that these methods comprise the most common (though not exclusive) vernacular surrounding development and shows how each is often counterproductive to its own goals. Rice further demonstrates that these claims create a particular role or public subjectivity grounded in one's own feelings, which serves to distance publics from each other and the issues at hand. Rice argues that rhetoricians have a duty to transform current patterns of public development discourse so that all individuals may engage in matters of crisis. She articulates its sustainability as both a goal and future disciplinary challenge of rhetorical studies and offers tools and methodologies toward that end.
Author : Ronald H. Fritze
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,11 MB
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1789145406
A myth-busting journey through the twilight world of fringe ideas and alternative facts. Is a secret and corrupt Illuminati conspiring to control world affairs and bring about a New World Order? Was Donald Trump a victim of massive voter fraud? Is Elizabeth II a shapeshifting reptilian alien? Who is doing all this plotting? In Hope and Fear, Ronald H. Fritze explores the fringe ideas and conspiracy theories people have turned to in order to make sense of the world around them, from myths about the Knights Templar and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, to Nazis and the occult, the Protocols of Zion and UFOs. As Fritze reveals, when conspiracy theories, myths, and pseudo-history dominate a society’s thinking, facts, reality, and truth fall by the wayside.
Author : Lee M. Pierce
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,44 MB
Release : 2023-08-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0817360875
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.