A Fool and his Money are Soon Parted: A Critical Examination of Credit Card Websites

This paper critiques the idea that a fool and their money are soon parted by using multimodal analysis to explore one of the ways in which people are parted from money: credit cards. I analyse the homepages of two products, the ‘best’ and ‘worst’ as rated by UK consumer organisation Which? In order...

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Main Author: Annabelle Mooney
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University) 2019-12-01
Series:Russian journal of linguistics: Vestnik RUDN
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Online Access:http://journals.rudn.ru/linguistics/article/viewFile/21770/17232