The Language of Money and Debt : A Multidisciplinary Approach

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Mooney, Annabelle (Editor), Sifaki, Evi (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Applied linguistics.; Sociolinguistics.; Discourse analysis.; Ethnology.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9783319575681
• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-57568-1
• Physical Description: XV, 316 p. 9 illus., 2 illus. in color. online resource.

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 emotiona...