Discourse analysis and austerity : critical studies from economics and linguistics /: critical studies from economics and linguistics. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Kate Power, Tanweer Ali, Eva Lebdušková.
• Editors: Power, Kate (Katherine Anne); Ali, Tanweer; Lebduková, Eva
• Contents: Foreword by Anne Pettifor; Foreword by Darren Kelsey; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Interdisciplinary* approaches to austerity discourses: A case study in why and how economists and discourse analysts should work together Kate Power, Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebdušková Part I: Approaching austerity through discourse; 1. Deep interdisciplinarity and responses to crisis Bob Hodge ; 2. Austerity and the eclipse of economic alternatives: The theoretical terrain of neoliberal economic crisis narratives Ellen Russell Part II: Historical perspective; 3. Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015) Lesley Jeffries & Brian Walker ; 4. ‘Less State’ in austerity: A concept masking the central agent of neoliberal policies Nuria Giniger & Irene Sotiropoulou ; 5. Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerity Bessie Mitsikopoulou & Christina Lykou Part III: The notion of ‘crisis’; 6. The recent economic crisis in Brazil and beyond: Some discussions on the weight of empirical issues, methodology and rhetoric Eduardo Strachman & Inês Signorini ; 7. Tales of austerity, and a crisis of wealth distribution Naoise McDonagh ; 8. Discursive uses of ‘abnormality’ in the Greek crisis Yannis Stavrakakis & Antonis Galanopoulos Part IV: Metaphors; 9. Are the metaphors underlying institutional and academic discourse on austerity reliable predictors of the stances adopted? Catherine Resche ; 10. Metaphors in times of crisis: Legitimizing austerity? Antonella Luporini Part V: Argumentation; 11. The ‘eternal character’ of austerity measures in European crisis policies: Evidence from the Fiscal Compact discourse in Austria Stephan Pühringer ; 12. The mirage of expansionary fiscal consolidation to resolve the euro-area crisis Giuseppe Mastromatteo & Sergio Rossi ; 13. Why should we all tighten our belts? On arguments for austerity in political discourse Emanuele Brambilla Part VI: Responses to ‘crisis’; 14. The austerity discourse of the Romanian economic-political elites: Neoliberal or (pseudo)European? Alina Bârgăoanu & Loredana Radu ; 15. An analysis of El Roto’s newspaper cartoons discourse as social indictment against Spanish austerity policies Piedad Fernández Toledo & Virginia Villaplana-Ruiz Conclusion Kate Power, Tanweer Ali, Eva Lebdušková; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 330.014; Discourse analysis; Economics -- Language
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781351802925; 9781351802901; 9781351802918; 9781315208190
• Related ISBNs: 9781138632547
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