Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality

Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez is Lecturer of English Language at the University of Granada, Spain.Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham, UK.

[T]his informative and insightful volume is an up-to-date contribution to the existing literature in CADS and economic inequality, with both methodological significance and wider socio-political impact ... On the other hand, by providing critical analysis of authentic discourse on a range of topics relating to inequality, this timely edited volume showcases the power of linguistic tools for investigating how mediated media discourse has influenced and shaped public perception of inequality.

• Introduction: The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality in the UK, Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez (University of Granada, Spain)1. Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Labour and Conservative Party Leaders’ Speeches, 1900-2014, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (Swansea University, UK) and Sadiq Almaged (Thi-Qar University, Iraq)2. Inequality and ‘The Language of Leadership’ in World War II, Joe Bennett (University of Birmingham, UK)3. Revisiting the Welfare State Through the Decades: Investigating the Discursive Construction of the Welfare State in The Times from 1940-2009, Isabelle van der Bom (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany) and Laura Paterson (Open University, UK)4. What Can Be Done about Child Poverty? What The Times Said Then and What It Says Now, Michael Toolan (University of Birmingham, UK)5. Inequality, Accountability and Responsibility in UK Press Reporting on Corporate Fraud (2004-2014) and Modern Slavery (2000-2016), Ilse Ras (Leeds University, UK)6. Health Inequality and the Representation of ‘Risky’ Working Class Identities in Obesity Policy, Jane Mulderrig (University of Sheffield, UK)7. We Are NOT All in This Together: A Corpus Assisted Critical Stylistics Analysis of Austerity in Print News Media 2009-2010 and 2016-2017, Brian Walker and Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield, UK)8. More Inequality, but Less Coverage: How and Why TV News Avoided ‘The Great Debate’ Either Side of the Financial Crisis 2008-2014, Richard Thomas (University of Swansea, UK)9. The Democracy We Live in: Can There Be Democracy without Equality?, Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK)Afterword, Danny Dorling (University of Oxford, UK)Index