The language of money: proverbs and practices

by Mooney, Annabelle

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Title Statements

Full title :The language of money : proverbs and practices / Annabelle Mooney.

Summary

Through a detailed examination of proverbs related to money, this book offers a comprehensive critique of the prevailing everyday ideologies and discourses on money and paves the way toward establishing a new set of proverbs more conducive to financial equality and human well-being. The volume explores a variety of contexts to demonstrate the different aspects of the money system and the linguistic and social structures embedded within them, including pay day loan websites, gambling, get rich self-help books, and new forms of currency. Unpacking this complex relationship between people, money, and language in contemporary society, this book is an ideal resource for students and scholars in language and communication, sociolinguistics, rhetoric, sociology, and media studies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York, NY
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 238 pages ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138219236, 1138219231
oclc:on1012344579
LC Classification:PN6084.M56
Dewey Decimal:332.4

Introduction -- Approach -- You have to speculate to accumulate -- Money doesn't grow on trees -- Money makes the world go round -- Money talks -- It's better to be born lucky than rich -- New proverbs, a new contract -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2.