Foreword by Anne Pettifor Foreword by Darren Kelsey Acknowledgements Introduction: Interdisciplinary* approaches to austerity discourses Part I: Approaching austerity through discourse 1. Deep interdisciplinarity and responses to crisis 2. Austerity and the eclipse of economic alternatives: The theoretical terrain of neoliberal economic crisis narratives Part II: Historical perspective 3. Austerity in the Commons: A corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803-2015) 4. 'Less State' in austerity: A concept masking the central agent of neoliberal policies 5. Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerity Part III: The notion of 'crisis' 6. The recent economic crisis in Brazil and beyond: Some discussions on the weight of empirical issues, methodology and rhetoric 7. Tales of austerity, and a crisis of wealth distribution 8.

Discursive uses of 'abnormality' in the Greek crisis Part IV: Metaphors 9. Are the metaphors underlying institutional and academic discourse on austerity reliable predictors of the stances adopted? 10. Metaphors in times of crisis: Legitimizing austerity? Part V: Argumentation 11. The 'eternal character' of austerity measures in European crisis policies: Evidence from the Fiscal Compact discourse in Austria 12. The mirage of expansionary fiscal consolidation to resolve the euro-area crisis 13. Why should we all tighten our belts? On arguments for austerity in political discourse Part VI: Responses to 'crisis' 14. The austerity discourse of the Romanian economic-political elites: Neoliberal or (pseudo)European? 15. An analysis of El Roto's newspaper cartoons discourse as social indictment against Spanish austerity policies Conclusion Index.