Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses: Reconstructing the Age of Austerity in the United Kingdom

Multimodal Approaches to Media Discourses brings together contributions from an interdisciplinary group of scholars on corpus-assisted analyses of multimodal data on austerity discourses in the United Kingdom, which extend and expand on the understanding of austerity but also of the methodologies used to analyse multimodal corpora.

The volume demonstrates how the austerity measures introduced in response to global economic and financial crises in recent years can be viewed as being more comp...