The Language of Money and Debt

Download or read book The Language of Money and Debt written by Annabelle Mooney and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-07-13 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.