Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015)

Lesley Jeffries; Brian Walker

doi:10.4324/9781315208190-6

Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015)

Lesley Jeffries, Brian Walker

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Abstract

June 2015 saw thousands of UK citizens join ‘anti-austerity’ protests after the surprise election of the Conservative Party as the party of government at the Westminster parliament. People in other European countries have also campaigned against the prevailing political ideology that asserts that ‘we’ need to ‘balance the books.’ The very existence of a protest movement defining itself by opposition to austerity supports the status of austerity as a sociopolitical keyword summarizing a complex political process.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Discourse Analysis and Austerity
Subtitle of host publication	Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics
Editors	Kate Power, Tanweer Ali, Eva Lebdušková
Place of Publication	London
Publisher	Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Chapter	3
Pages	53-79
Number of pages	27
Edition	1st
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315208190
ISBN (Print)	9781138632547, 9780367671587
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315208190-6
Publication status	Published - 20 Mar 2019

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Name	Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy
Publisher	Routledge

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Jeffries, L., & Walker, B. (2019). Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015). In K. Power, T. Ali, & E. Lebdušková (Eds.), Discourse Analysis and Austerity: Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics (1st ed., pp. 53-79). (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy). Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315208190-6

Jeffries, Lesley ; Walker, Brian. / Austerity in the Commons : A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015). Discourse Analysis and Austerity: Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics . editor / Kate Power ; Tanweer Ali ; Eva Lebdušková. 1st. ed. London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019. pp. 53-79 (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy).

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Jeffries L, Walker B. Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803–2015). In Power K, Ali T, Lebdušková E, editors, Discourse Analysis and Austerity: Critical Studies from Economics and Linguistics . 1st ed. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2019. p. 53-79. (Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy). doi: 10.4324/9781315208190-6

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