The Language of Money and Debt: A Multidisciplinary Approach

by Annabelle Mooney (Editor), Evi Sifaki (Editor)

Overview

This book analyses the language that ordinary people employ when discussing money, debt and financial behaviour. It documents and critiques this language from an array of disciplinary perspectives, with chapters on children’s books, government infomercials, television poverty porn, the emotional experience of being indebted, and more. In doing so, it addresses common underlying questions concerning definitions of money and value, and scrutinises how people construct, negotiate and articulate meaning in these domains. This wide-ranging edited collection will be of interest to students and scholars of linguistics, sociology, communication, literature and anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319575674
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	07/14/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	316
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Annabelle Mooney is Professor of Language and Society at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her research interests include the language of money and financial literacy, and the language of human rights.

Evi Sifaki is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Roehampton, UK. Her main research focus is the syntax of different word order phenomena, and the documentation of various aspects of morphosyntactic change.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The View from the Ground: Annabelle Mooney and Evi Sifaki
Part I: Money and Childhood
2: Stories of value: The nature of money in three classic British picture books: Astrid Van den Bossche
3: The treatment of money and wealth in the Harry Potter series: Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebdušková
Part II: Money and the Everyday
4: Money Talk at the Mass Observation Archive: Liz Moor
5: Snudging Cheapskates and Magnificent Profusion: The Conceptual Baggage of 'mean' and 'generous': Annabelle Mooney and Evi Sifaki
6: Neoliberalism in the academy: Have you drunk the Kool-Aid?: Liz Morrish
7: Falling Behind: Debtors' Emotional Relationships to Creditors: Anna Custers
Part III: Money and the Media
8: The language of “Welfare dependency” and "Benefit Cheats": Internalising and reproducing the hegemonic and discursive rhetoric of “benefit scroungers”: Chris Roberts
9: 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 Grainger
10: The Discourse of alternative credit: a multimodal critical examination of the Cash Converters mobile app: Gavin Brookes and Kevin Harvey
Part IV: What is Money?
11: The Sociality of Debt: A Case Study of Kamba (Kenya) Conceptualisations of Borrowing and Lending: Froukje Krijtenburg
12: What is Money? Legal Language as Modern Day Alchemy: Kate Harrington