Krisenviren und der drohende Infarkt des Finanzsystems: Metaphorische Rechtfertigungen von Krisenpolitik

Kuck Kristin ()
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Kuck Kristin: Lehrstuhl für Germanistische Sprachwissenschaft, Institut für Germanistik, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstr. 1, D-40225 Düsseldorf

Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte / Economic History Yearbook, 2016, vol. 57, issue 2, 493-517

Abstract: This article analyses the function of illness-metaphors for the construction of economic and social crises in public discourse. Three periods of crises in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany are contemplated: the oil crisis in 1973/74, the public dispute about Schröder’s so-called Agenda 2010 in 2003 and the financial crisis in 2008/09. It will show that illness-metaphors are used in combination with other metaphors involving other source domains. Thus, conceptual metaphors unfold scenarios, which explain the essence of and the coping with a crisis without requiring specific knowledge about economic relations.

Keywords: Crisis; crisis discourse; oil crisis; Agenda 2010; financial crisis; metaphors; conceptual metaphors; history of discourse; Federal Republic; economic policy; crisis policy; welfare state; crisis of the welfare state; justification; mass media; illness; virus; paralysis; inadequate provision; Krisen; Krisendiskurs; Ölkrise; Agenda 2010; Finanzkrise; Metaphern; konzeptuelle Metaphern; Diskursgeschichte; Bundesrepublik; Wirtschaftspolitik; Krisenpolitik; Sozialstaat; Sozialstaatskrise; Rechtfertigung; Massenmedien; Krankheit; Virus; Lähmung; Unterversorgung (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: B G H N O Y (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1515/jbwg-2016-0020

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