Discourse Analysis and Austerity : Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics (Paperback)

Foreword by Anne PettiforForeword by Darren KelseyAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Interdisciplinary* approaches to austerity discoursesPart I: Approaching austerity through discourse1. Deep interdisciplinarity and responses to crisis2. Austerity and the eclipse of economic alternatives: The theoretical terrain of neoliberal economic crisis narrativesPart II: Historical perspective3. Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803?2015)4. ‘Less State’ in austerity: A concept masking the central agent of neoliberal policies5. Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerityPart III: The notion of ‘crisis’6. The recent economic crisis in Brazil and beyond: Some discussions on the weight of empirical issues, methodology and rhetoric7. Tales of austerity, and a crisis of wealth distribution8. Discursive uses of ‘abnormality’ in the Greek crisisPart IV: Metaphors9. Are the metaphors underlying institutional and academic discourse on austerity reliable predictors of the stances adopted?10. Metaphors in times of crisis: Legitimizing austerity?Part V: Argumentation11. The ‘eternal character’ of austerity measures in European crisis policies: Evidence from the Fiscal Compact discourse in Austria12. The mirage of expansionary fiscal consolidation to resolve the euro-area crisis13. Why should we all tighten our belts? On arguments for austerity in political discoursePart VI: Responses to ‘crisis’14. The austerity discourse of the Romanian economic-political elites: Neoliberal or (pseudo)European?15. An analysis of El Roto’s newspaper cartoons discourse as social indictment against Spanish austerity policiesConclusionIndex