The Language of Money and Debt: A Multidisciplinary Approach

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The View from the Ground....Pages 1-30
Front Matter....Pages 31-31
Stories of Value: The Nature of Money in Three Classic British Picture Books....Pages 33-55
The Treatment of Money and Wealth in the Harry Potter Series....Pages 57-78
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Money Talk at the Mass Observation Archive....Pages 81-103
Snudging Cheapskates and Magnificent Profusion: The Conceptual Baggage of ‘Mean’ and ‘Generous’....Pages 105-135
Neoliberalism in the Academy: Have You Drunk the Kool-Aid?....Pages 137-161
Falling Behind: Debtors’ Emotional Relationships to Creditors....Pages 163-185
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The Language of “Welfare Dependency” and “Benefit Cheats”: Internalising and Reproducing the Hegemonic and Discursive Rhetoric of “Benefit Scroungers”....Pages 189-204
Does Money Talk Equate to Class Talk? Audience Responses to Poverty Porn in Relation to Money and Debt....Pages 205-231
The Discourse of Alternative Credit: A Multimodal Critical Examination of the Cash Converters Mobile App....Pages 233-256
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The Sociality of Debt: A Case Study of Kamba (Kenya) Conceptualisations of Borrowing and Lending....Pages 259-281
What Is Money? Legal Language as Modern Day Alchemy....Pages 283-309
Back Matter....Pages 311-316