| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 239 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 16 |
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Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 16.
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| Contents |
Language, Communication and the Economy; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Table of contents; Preface; Introduction; I. Critique; 1. Communication and commodification; 2. For-profit discourse in the nonprofit and public sectors; 3. Education, discourse and the market; II. Method; 4. Headlines and cartoons in the economic press; 5. Blended conceptualisation in trade flow diagrams; 6. 'Models': Normative or technical?; III. History; 7. What goes up, must come down; 8. Outline of a genealogy of the value of the entrepreneur; 9. A.R. Orage and the reception of Douglas's social credit theory |
| Summary |
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 economic |
| Notes |
"In May 2002 an international conference on 'Text and economics' was held at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) ... The present volume contains a selection of the papers that were read ..."--Preface |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economics -- Language -- Congresses
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Discourse analysis -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Theory.
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Discourse analysis
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Economics -- Language
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Erreygers, Guido, 1959-
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Jacobs, Geert.
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| ISBN |
9789027294036 |
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9027294038 |
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