The Language of Money and Debt: A Multidisciplinary Approach

Book Overview

Introduction: The View from the Ground: Annabelle Mooney and Evi SifakiPart I: Money and Childhood2: Stories of value: The nature of money in three classic British picture books: Astrid Van den Bossche3: The treatment of money and wealth in the Harry Potter series: Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebduskov?Part II: Money and the Everyday4: Money Talk at the Mass Observation Archive: Liz Moor5: Snudging Cheapskates and Magnificent Profusion: The Conceptual Baggage of 'mean' and 'generous': Annabelle Mooney and Evi Sifaki6: Neoliberalism in the academy: Have you drunk the Kool-Aid?: Liz Morrish7: Falling Behind: Debtors' Emotional Relationships to Creditors: Anna CustersPart III: Money and the Media8: The language of "Welfare dependency" and "Benefit Cheats" Internalising and reproducing the hegemonic and discursive rhetoric of "benefit scroungers" Chris Roberts9: Does money talk equate to class talk? Audience responses to poverty porn in relation to money and debt.: Laura L. Paterson, David Peplow and Karen Grainger10: The Discourse of alternative credit: a multimodal critical examination of the Cash Converters mobile app: Gavin Brookes and Kevin HarveyPart IV: What is Money?11: The Sociality of Debt: A Case Study of Kamba (Kenya) Conceptualisations of Borrowing and Lending: Froukje Krijtenburg12: What is Money? Legal Language as Modern Day Alchemy: Kate Harrington

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319861964
• ISBN13: 9783319861968
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"