This book demonstrates the importance of understanding how political rhetoric, financial reporting and media coverage of austerity in transnational contexts is significant to the communicative, social and economic environments in which we live. Critical analyses of discourse, power and language in social contexts provide a collaborative contribution to the field of critical discourse studies. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Discourse Studies.

Darren Kelsey is Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Discourse Studies and Head of Media, Culture, Heritage at Newcastle University, UK. His primary research interests are in the fields of media, politics, mythology, ideology, power, and critical discourse studies. He is a co-convenor of the Newcastle Critical Discourse Group.

Frank Mueller is Professor of Strategy and Organisation at Newcastle University Business School, UK, and Director of the Doctoral Programme there. His overall research focus is on understanding organisational change as a discursive, political and strategic project under conditions of neo-liberalism and managerialism.

Andrea Whittle is Professor of Management and Organization Studies at Newcastle University Business School, UK. Her research is driven by a passion for understanding the role of language in business and management settings, and is informed by theories and methodologies from the fields of discourse analysis, narrative, discursive psychology, ethnography, ethnomethodology, and conversation analysis.

Majid KhosraviNik is Lecturer in Media and Discourse Studies at Newcastle University, UK. His research interests lie in theory, methodology and application of critical discourse analysis in a range of topics including the intersection of discourse and (national/ethnic/group) identity. He is a co-convenor of the Newcastle Critical Discourse Group.

1. Financial crisis and austerity: interdisciplinary concerns in critical discourse studies 2. Accounting for the banking crisis: repertoires of agency and structure 3. Protesting Too Much: Alastair Darling's constructions after the Financial Crash 4. Evaluating policy as argument: the public debate over the first UK austerity budget 5. How Malthusian ideology crept into the newsroom: British tabloids and the coverage of the 'underclass' 6. 'I think it's absolutely exorbitant!': how UK television news reported the shareholder vote on executive remuneration at Barclays in 2012 7. Organizing the (Sociomaterial) Economy: Ritual, agency, and economic models