The Anthropology of Intensity: Language, Culture, and Environment

ISBN-13: 9781009011075 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Paul Kockelman

Opis

By using a linguistic and anthropological framework, this pioneering book offers a natural history of intensity in the Anthropocene.

Recenzje

'… offers a thorough framework for understanding how speakers make sense of shifting degrees of change in a starkly mutable world.' Sean P. Smith, Language in Society

Spis treści

Introduction; Part I. Grounds: 1. Comparative grounds; 2. Casual grounds; 3. Grounding experience: Grounding the anthropocene; Part II. Tensors: 5. Intensifiers; 6. The history of Mas; The comparative complex; 8. More, also, only; Part III. Thresholds: 9. Temporality and replacement; 10. Temporal thresholds; 11. Modality and worlding; 12. Modal thoughts; Conclusion: the ecological self.