Language, Communication and the Economy

Editors

Guido Erreygers

| University of Antwerp

Geert Jacobs

| Ghent University

Hardbound – Available

ISBN 9789027227065 | EUR 120.00 | USD 180.00

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ISBN 9789027294036 | EUR 120.00 | USD 180.00

This volume brings together a number of wide-ranging, transdisciplinary research articles on the interface between discourse studies and economics. It explores in what way economics can contribute to the analysis of discursive practices in various institutional settings as well as investigating what role discourse studies can play in economic research. The contributors are linguists, communication scholars, economists and other social scientists drawing on various traditions including Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics, ethnography and the literature on the rhetoric of economics and on economic storytelling. All articles are essentially empirical, focusing on the details of actual language use. The type of data analysed ranges from the minutes of university policy meetings and large-scale corpora of newspaper language, over books of economic theory from both well-respected economists and monetary cranks, to cartoons from The Economist.

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 16] 2005. viii, 239 pp.

Publishing status: Available

https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.16

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction Guido Erreygers and Geert Jacobs	1–5
I. Critique
Communication and commodification: Global economic change in sociolinguistic perspective Deborah Jane Cameron	9–23
For-profit discourse in the nonprofit and public sectors Gerlinde Mautner	25–44
Education, discourse and the market: On the merger of two schools of applied economics Geert Jacobs and Katja Pelsmaekers	45–69
II. Method
Headlines and cartoons in the economic press: Double grounding as a discourse supportive strategy Geert Brône and Kurt Feyaerts	73–99
Blended conceptualisation in trade flow diagrams: Rise expression from cognitive highlighting to fictive motion, a French-Italian perspective Paul Sambre	101–125
‘Models’: Normative or technical?: Public discourse on companies Chris Braecke	127–149
III. History
What goes up, must come down: Images and metaphors in early macroeconomic theory Peter Rosner	153–178
Outline of a genealogy of the value of the entrepreneur Campbell Jones and André Spicer	179–197
A.R. Orage and the reception of Douglas’s social credit theory Walter Van Trier	199–229
Name index	231–234
Subject index	235–239

“I recommend this book to linguists interested in the analysis of political and economic discourses as well as scholars in sociology and economics who are willing to investigate economic texts at micro and macro levels.”

Nasrin Kowkabi, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, in Journal of Language and Politics, Vol. 13:1 (2014)

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Subjects

Linguistics

Pragmatics

Discourse studies

BIC Subject: CF – Linguistics

BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General

U.S. Library of Congress Control Number: 2005054263