The Language of Money and Debt

1. The View from the Ground
Annabelle Mooney, Evi Sifaki

Part 1. Money and Childhood

2. Stories of Value: The Nature of Money in Three Classic British Picture Books
Astrid Bossche

3. The Treatment of Money and Wealth in the Harry Potter Series
Tanweer Ali, Eva Lebdušková

Part 2. 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, 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 3. 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, Karen Grainger

10. The Discourse of Alternative Credit: A Multimodal Critical Examination of the Cash Converters Mobile App
Gavin Brookes, Kevin Harvey

Part 4. 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

Keywords: Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics, Applied Linguistics, Social Anthropology