Paul Chilton
British linguist (born 1944)
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Paul Anthony Chilton (born 21 October 1944) is a British cognitive linguist and discourse analyst known for his work on conceptual metaphor, cognitive stylistics, and political discourse.[1] Chilton developed a three-dimensional model to analyze semantic structure in natural languages, based on spatial cognition and using a formalism derived from vector geometry. This approach has been applied to discourse in terms of spatial, temporal, and modal dimensions.[2]
BornOctober 21, 1944
KnownforCognitive linguistics; political discourse analysis
EducationCheadle Hulme School (formerly The Manchester Warehousmen and Clerks Orphan School)
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Paul Chilton | |
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| Born | October 21, 1944 |
| Known for | Cognitive linguistics; political discourse analysis |
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| Education | Cheadle Hulme School (formerly The Manchester Warehousmen and Clerks Orphan School) |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford |
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Chilton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Lancaster.[3]
Select publications
- Orwellian Language and the Media (1988)
- Security Metaphors: Cold War Discourse from Containment to Common European Home (1996)
- Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice (2004)
- Language, Space and Mind: The Conceptual Geometry of Linguistic Meaning (2014)
- Religion, Language, and the Human Mind (2018, ed. with Monika Kopytowska)