Paul A Chilton
I am an interdisciplinary cognitive linguist, cognitive scientist, and discourse analyst. One of my recent books, Language, Space and Mind (CUP 2014), develops a cognitive theory of language grounded in spatial cognition. There are some applications of this approach to the analysis of discourse of various types. With Monika Kopytowska I am co-editor of Religion, Language, and the Human Mind (OUP 2018), a multidisciplinary volume including distinguished contributors from linguistics cognitive science, neuroscience and religious studies.
I have also long been associated with critical discourse analysis (CDA), and have contributed several linguistics-based papers and books to this field. My critical discourse activity has included consultancy and pro bono work for Oxfam, Common Cause and the World Wildlife Fund.
My publications also include scholarship in Renaissance studies and I am the translator of The Heptameorn, a collection of satirical and humorous stories by the French scholar and monarch, Marguerite de Navarre (Penguin Classics).
I am fortunate to have been educated at Cheadle Hulme School , Manchester, and for my first degree and doctorate at Magdalen College, Oxford.
I have held academic positions at Nottingham University, University of Warwick (Reader in French Studies), Aston University (Professor of Linguistics, and head of modern languages), University of East Anglia (Professor of Linguistics). I am Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, and currently an Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick in the Centre for Applied Linguistics.
I have been McArthur Fellow at Stanford University (1988-90) and visiting head of languages at the University of Commerce, Tianjin, China (2005-2008).
I have also long been associated with critical discourse analysis (CDA), and have contributed several linguistics-based papers and books to this field. My critical discourse activity has included consultancy and pro bono work for Oxfam, Common Cause and the World Wildlife Fund.
My publications also include scholarship in Renaissance studies and I am the translator of The Heptameorn, a collection of satirical and humorous stories by the French scholar and monarch, Marguerite de Navarre (Penguin Classics).
I am fortunate to have been educated at Cheadle Hulme School , Manchester, and for my first degree and doctorate at Magdalen College, Oxford.
I have held academic positions at Nottingham University, University of Warwick (Reader in French Studies), Aston University (Professor of Linguistics, and head of modern languages), University of East Anglia (Professor of Linguistics). I am Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, and currently an Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick in the Centre for Applied Linguistics.
I have been McArthur Fellow at Stanford University (1988-90) and visiting head of languages at the University of Commerce, Tianjin, China (2005-2008).
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Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store ‘cognitive maps’ for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space.
Language, Cognition and Space brings together nineteen articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. This volume represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice.
International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush.
Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.
Papers by Paul A Chilton
Spatial perception and cognition is fundamental to human abilities to navigate through space, identify and locate objects, and track entities in motion. Moreover, research findings in the last couple of decades reveal that many of the mechanisms humans employ to achieve this are largely innate, providing abilities to store ‘cognitive maps’ for locating themselves and others, locations, directions and routes. In this humans are like many other species. However, unlike other species, humans can employ language in order to represent space. The human linguistic ability combined with the human ability for spatial representation results in rich, creative and sometimes surprising extensions of representations for three-dimensional physical space.
Language, Cognition and Space brings together nineteen articles from leading scholars who investigate the relationship between spatial cognition and spatial language. This volume represents the state of the art in terms of language and space research and points to new directions in terms of findings, theory, and practice.
International in its perspective, Analysing Political Discourse also considers the changing landscape of political language post-September 11, including the increasing use of religious imagery in the political discourse of, amongst others, George Bush.
Written in a lively and engaging style, this book provides an essential introduction to political discourse analysis.