Paul Chilton
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 617123 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul Chilton |
| NOMBRES | Paul |
| APELLIDO | Chilton |
| FIRMA | CHILTON P |
| AFILIACIONES | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0755-1932 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 31 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 5 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Religion, Language, and the Human Mind
The book is divided into three Parts, all preceded by a full introductory chapter by the editors that discusses modern scientific approaches to religion and the application of modern linguistics, particularly cognitive linguistics and pragmatics. Part I surveys the development of modern studies of religious language and the diverse disciplinary strands that have emerged. Beginning with descriptive approaches to religious language, and the problem…
Hoc est corpus
This chapter, which has both a historical and an analytic dimension, concerns the ritual of the ‘Eucharist’ or ‘mass’, best known in the Catholic variant of Christianity. The first part of the paper outlines the part of the ritual’s complex history that is concerned with various theological attempts to explain or justify particular interpretations of the ritual that have been the subject of conflict. In particular, it outlines the intellectual hi…
The people” in populist discourse
At the centre of populism is a problem of meaning. We could simply say it is a semiotic problem, but I would like to go further, and say that it’s a cognitive problem, one intrinsic to the human nervous system. It is a characteristic of our species that becomes highly active and significant in group action at certain social and historical conjunctures. The problem is the meaning of the word people, which on most accounts is centrally important fo…
Toward a neuro-cognitive model of socio-political discourse, and an application to the populist discourse of Donald Trump
Cet article trouve sa source dans le fait que les processus socio-politiques ne sont pas « ex-nihilo » dans la société mais sont bien des processus intellectuels créés par des individus et existants parmi des individus. On a donc affaire avant tout à des processus verbaux dépendants de l'unique capacité linguistique humaine. Ils peuvent et doivent donc être étudiés par le biais d'outils tirés de la science cognitive et de la linguistique. Dans ce…
Language, Space and Mind
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a fluid, increasingly fragmented, but highly dynamic and yet fragile so…
“Critical” in Critical Discourse Analysis
The term “critical” was adopted by a group of linguists working at the University of East Anglia, UK, in the 1970s to describe a type of applied linguistics that concerned itself with the relationship between language and social phenomena.
Discourse and Politics
Critique across cultures
CDA (critical discourse analysis) has become widespread not only in Europe but also in the international arena. The concept and practice of the ‘critical’ may become problematic when they cross cultural, social and political boundaries. This paper focuses on the meanings of the English word critical (and cognates) and on the Chinese words used to translate it. We assume that the meaning of each set of words is linked to the historical discourse p…
Still something missing in CDA
In an important article (this issue), Chris Hart makes the case that CDA needs to draw on a wider range of theoretical sources in Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Science, giving particular attention to Evolutionary Psychology. While I support Hart’s case for this approach to CDA, and also support his argument, as a corrective to Chilton (2005), that Evolutionary Psychology actually shows the need for something like CDA, this present article a…
Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This essay is particularly concerned with the question of how a shared understanding of the concept of the critical can be developed among Western and Chinese scholars. To this end t…
Geometrical concepts at the interface of formal and cognitive models
The paper has two related aims. One is to outline a proposal for a spatially motivated model of discourse, called Discourse Space Theory. The other is to use this framework to explore, in a relatively formalised way, the spatial basis of the conceptual complexities arising in the uses of the English progressive verb form (be+-ing). The theory utilises an abstract space in three dimensions (time, space and modality). Verb stems are associated with…
Challenges in the Study of Language and Politics, Challenges for JLP
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A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge the discourses of our day. It is time for A New Agenda in the field. The present book is essential for anyone working broadly in the field of discourse …
Missing links in mainstream CDA
Analysing Political Discourse
This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dan…
Politics as Text and Talk
Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and intuitively, we call ‘political’. Such an approach is revealing not only for politics itself but also for the human language capacity. Each chapter outline…
Introduction
Do something
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Introducing the Journal of Language and Politics
Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991
The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social scientists, from all corners of the continent, whose tools of analysis shed light on the crucial two years of transition during which political concep…
Reflections on Truth, Reality and Fragmentation in the Third Age of Broadcasting
(1998). Reflections on Truth, Reality and Fragmentation in the Third Age of Broadcasting: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson. Current Issues In Language and Society: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 281-291
The Role of Language in Human Conflict
Since the 1980s some theorists of international relations, though certainly not all, have been interested in the role played by language and discourse. There is something intuitively plausible both in the notion that violent conflictis linked with dysfunctions of human communication and in the notion that communicative strategies are equally involved in the repair of conflict. How, to what degree, and with what, if any, causal force are language,…
“La plaie qu'il convient de fermer …”
Metaphor in Political Discourse
The metaphor of the `common European house' appeared in political discourse in several European languages in the late 1980s. Political discourse, usually treated in a domestic single-language perspective, is here examined in a trans-national and trans-linguistic one. A model of such political discourse as a kind of `conversation' is proposed, as well as a framework for the analysis of metaphor that combines a cognitive and a discourse approach. U…
Metaphor in Political Discourse
The metaphor of the `common European house' appeared in political discourse in several European languages in the late 1980s. Political discourse, usually treated in a domestic single-language perspective, is here examined in a trans-national and trans-linguistic one. A model of such political discourse as a kind of `conversation' is proposed, as well as a framework for the analysis of metaphor that combines a cognitive and a discourse approach. U…
Politeness, Politics and Diplomacy
The Brown-Levinson analysis of politeness phenomena is reinterpreted and applied to political texts, specifically texts in international communication. The Brown-Levinson framework explicates many aspects of verbal formulation in face-to-face interaction, but it gives the impression of treating social relations as a natural state of affairs to which interlocutors respond. The article first indicates some inherently political elements in the conce…
The people” in populist discourse
At the centre of populism is a problem of meaning. We could simply say it is a semiotic problem, but I would like to go further, and say that it’s a cognitive problem, one intrinsic to the human nervous system. It is a characteristic of our species that becomes highly active and significant in group action at certain social and historical conjunctures. The problem is the meaning of the word people, which on most accounts is centrally important fo…
Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This essay is particularly concerned with the question of how a shared understanding of the concept of the critical can be developed among Western and Chinese scholars. To this end t…
Co-operation and non-co-operation
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and doing things, has become an indispensable instrument for the authority to manage a fluid, increasingly fragmented, but highly dynamic and yet fragile so…
Politics as Text and Talk
Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and intuitively, we call ‘political’. Such an approach is revealing not only for politics itself but also for the human language capacity. Each chapter outline…
Do something
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Critique across cultures
CDA (critical discourse analysis) has become widespread not only in Europe but also in the international arena. The concept and practice of the ‘critical’ may become problematic when they cross cultural, social and political boundaries. This paper focuses on the meanings of the English word critical (and cognates) and on the Chinese words used to translate it. We assume that the meaning of each set of words is linked to the historical discourse p…
Challenges in the Study of Language and Politics, Challenges for JLP
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Toward a neuro-cognitive model of socio-political discourse, and an application to the populist discourse of Donald Trump
Cet article trouve sa source dans le fait que les processus socio-politiques ne sont pas « ex-nihilo » dans la société mais sont bien des processus intellectuels créés par des individus et existants parmi des individus. On a donc affaire avant tout à des processus verbaux dépendants de l'unique capacité linguistique humaine. Ils peuvent et doivent donc être étudiés par le biais d'outils tirés de la science cognitive et de la linguistique. Dans ce…
Still something missing in CDA
In an important article (this issue), Chris Hart makes the case that CDA needs to draw on a wider range of theoretical sources in Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Science, giving particular attention to Evolutionary Psychology. While I support Hart’s case for this approach to CDA, and also support his argument, as a corrective to Chilton (2005), that Evolutionary Psychology actually shows the need for something like CDA, this present article a…
Analysing Political Discourse
This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dan…
Introducing the Journal of Language and Politics
Orwell, language and linguistics
Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate
Co-operation and non-co-operation
Safe as houses
Politeness, Politics and Diplomacy
The Brown-Levinson analysis of politeness phenomena is reinterpreted and applied to political texts, specifically texts in international communication. The Brown-Levinson framework explicates many aspects of verbal formulation in face-to-face interaction, but it gives the impression of treating social relations as a natural state of affairs to which interlocutors respond. The article first indicates some inherently political elements in the conce…
Orwellian Language and the Media
Metaphor in Political Discourse
The metaphor of the `common European house' appeared in political discourse in several European languages in the late 1980s. Political discourse, usually treated in a domestic single-language perspective, is here examined in a trans-national and trans-linguistic one. A model of such political discourse as a kind of `conversation' is proposed, as well as a framework for the analysis of metaphor that combines a cognitive and a discourse approach. U…
“La plaie qu'il convient de fermer …”
The Role of Language in Human Conflict
Since the 1980s some theorists of international relations, though certainly not all, have been interested in the role played by language and discourse. There is something intuitively plausible both in the notion that violent conflictis linked with dysfunctions of human communication and in the notion that communicative strategies are equally involved in the repair of conflict. How, to what degree, and with what, if any, causal force are language,…
Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991
The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social scientists, from all corners of the continent, whose tools of analysis shed light on the crucial two years of transition during which political concep…
Reflections on Truth, Reality and Fragmentation in the Third Age of Broadcasting
(1998). Reflections on Truth, Reality and Fragmentation in the Third Age of Broadcasting: A Response to Ulrike Hanna Meinhof and Kay Richardson. Current Issues In Language and Society: Vol. 5, No. 4, pp. 281-291
Politics as Text and Talk
Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and intuitively, we call ‘political’. Such an approach is revealing not only for politics itself but also for the human language capacity. Each chapter outline…
Introduction
Do something
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Introducing the Journal of Language and Politics
Analysing Political Discourse
This is an essential read for anyone interested in the way language is used in the world of politics. Based on Aristotle's premise that we are all political animals, able to use language to pursue our own ends, the book uses the theoretical framework of linguistics to explore the ways in which we think and behave politically. Contemporary and high profile case studies of politicians and other speakers are used, including an examination of the dan…
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge the discourses of our day. It is time for A New Agenda in the field. The present book is essential for anyone working broadly in the field of discourse …
Missing links in mainstream CDA
Geometrical concepts at the interface of formal and cognitive models
The paper has two related aims. One is to outline a proposal for a spatially motivated model of discourse, called Discourse Space Theory. The other is to use this framework to explore, in a relatively formalised way, the spatial basis of the conceptual complexities arising in the uses of the English progressive verb form (be+-ing). The theory utilises an abstract space in three dimensions (time, space and modality). Verb stems are associated with…
Challenges in the Study of Language and Politics, Challenges for JLP
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Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This essay is particularly concerned with the question of how a shared understanding of the concept of the critical can be developed among Western and Chinese scholars. To this end t…
Discourse and Politics
Critique across cultures
CDA (critical discourse analysis) has become widespread not only in Europe but also in the international arena. The concept and practice of the ‘critical’ may become problematic when they cross cultural, social and political boundaries. This paper focuses on the meanings of the English word critical (and cognates) and on the Chinese words used to translate it. We assume that the meaning of each set of words is linked to the historical discourse p…
Still something missing in CDA
In an important article (this issue), Chris Hart makes the case that CDA needs to draw on a wider range of theoretical sources in Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Science, giving particular attention to Evolutionary Psychology. While I support Hart’s case for this approach to CDA, and also support his argument, as a corrective to Chilton (2005), that Evolutionary Psychology actually shows the need for something like CDA, this present article a…
“Critical” in Critical Discourse Analysis
The term “critical” was adopted by a group of linguists working at the University of East Anglia, UK, in the 1970s to describe a type of applied linguistics that concerned itself with the relationship between language and social phenomena.
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