Language, communication and the economy

Language, communication and the economy / edited by Guido Erreygers, Geert Jacobs.

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...

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Other Authors: Erreygers, Guido, 1959-, Jacobs, Geert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., ©2005.
Series:Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 16.
Subjects:
Economics > Language > Congresses.
Discourse analysis > Congresses.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Theory.
Discourse analysis
Economics > Language
Conference papers and proceedings
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Table of 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.

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