Introduction: interdisciplinary approaches to austerity discourses : a case study in why and how economists and discourse analysts should work together / Kate Power, Tanweer Ali and Eva Lebduková -- Approaching austerity through discourse -- Deep interdisciplinarity and responses to crisis / Bob Hodge -- Austerity and the eclipse of economic alternatives : the theoretical terrain of neoliberal economic crisis narratives / Ellen Russell -- Historical perspective -- Austerity in the commons : a corpus critical analysis of austerity and its surrounding grammatical context in Hansard (1803-2015) / Lesley Jeffries & Brian Walker -- "Less state" in austerity : a concept masking the central agent of neoliberal policies / Nuria Giniger & Irene Sotiropoulou -- Discourses of crisis and representation of Greece in a period of austerity / Bessie Mitsikopoulou & Christina Lykou -- The notion of "crisis" -- The recent economic crisis in Brazil and beyond : some discussions on the weight of empirical issues, methodology and rhetoric / Eduardo Strachman & Inês Signorini -- Tales of austerity, and a crisis of wealth distribution / Naoise McDonagh -- Discursive uses of "abnormality" in the Greek crisis / Yannis Stavrakakis & Antonis Galanopoulos -- Metaphors -- Are the metaphors underlying institutional and academic discourse on austerity reliable predictors of the stances adopted? / Catherine Resche -- Metaphors in times of crisis : legitimizing austerity? / Antonella Luporini -- Argumentation -- The "eternal character" of austerity measures in european crisis policies : evidence from the fiscal compact discourse in Austria / Stephan Pühringer -- The mirage of expansionary fiscal consolidation to resolve the euro-area crisis / Giuseppe Mastromatteo & Sergio Rossi -- Why should we all tighten our belts? : on arguments for austerity in political discourse / Emanuele Brambilla -- Responses to "crisis" -- The austerity discourse of the Romanian economic-political elites : neoliberal or (pseudo)european? / Alina Bârgaoanu & Loredana Radu -- An analysis of el roto's newspaper cartoons discourse as social indictment against Spanish austerity policies / Piedad Fernández Toledo & Virginia Villaplana-Ruiz.