The Language of Money and Debt

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 LebduSkováPart 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

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.