Get out overdrawn

a dialogic look in headlines about personal finances

Abstract

Know how to spend. Knowing save. Exiting overdrawn? It is often read or heard questions like these in the media. These statements usually appear in late season or year beginning, as that is when people receive the Christmas bonus and find themselves faced with decisions about saving the money to pay off debts, or enjoy the balance more and go shopping. And the media, aware of this time, spray a series of statements that bring in its wake guidance on how to manage money and how to get out of the web of debts if they overdo the dose. This article focuses on these kinds of statements, on the covers of newspapers to investigate in the light of the reflections of the Russian thinker Mikhail Bakhtin, especially the dialogic if these headlines imply that people do not know how to manage their own money. Were used key ideas theoretical Bakhtin's as the voices, the dialogic characteristic in the statements and others of speech.