Discourse Analysis and Austerity

Foreword by Anne Pettifor
Foreword by Darren Kelsey
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Interdisciplinary* approaches to austerity discourses

Part I: Approaching austerity through discourse
1. Deep interdisciplinarity and responses to crisis
2. Austerity and the eclipse of economic alternatives: The theoretical terrain of neoliberal economic crisis narratives

Part II: Historical perspective
3. Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015)
4. ‘Less State’ in austerity: A concept masking the central agent of neoliberal policies
5. Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerity

Part III: The notion of ‘crisis’
6. The recent economic crisis in Brazil and beyond: Some discussions on the weight of empirical issues, methodology and rhetoric
7. Tales of austerity, and a crisis of wealth distribution
8. Discursive uses of ‘abnormality’ in the Greek crisis

Part IV: Metaphors
9. Are the metaphors underlying institutional and academic discourse on austerity reliable predictors of the stances adopted?
10. Metaphors in times of crisis: Legitimizing austerity?

Part V: Argumentation
11. The ‘eternal character’ of austerity measures in European crisis policies: Evidence from the Fiscal Compact discourse in Austria
12. The mirage of expansionary fiscal consolidation to resolve the euro-area crisis
13. Why should we all tighten our belts? On arguments for austerity in political discourse

Part VI: Responses to ‘crisis’
14. The austerity discourse of the Romanian economic-political elites: Neoliberal or (pseudo)European?
15. An analysis of El Roto’s newspaper cartoons discourse as social indictment against Spanish austerity policies

Conclusion
Index