C Hart
Biographic Data
| ID | 15532 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Hart |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Hart |
| SIGNATURE | HART C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Lancaster University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7469-7731 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 205 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1844 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Taking a stance through stance
The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates the embodied performance of one right-wing populist politician, namely Donald Trump, with a focus on one specific kinesic routine: the shrug. While the body’s role in right-wing populist communication is increasingly recognized, it is rarely approached through the kind of systematic analy…
Using generative AI to investigate the multimodal representation of refugees and migrants
This article uses AI-generated images to consider patterns in the way refugees and migrants are visually represented on the internet. AI text-to-image generation is treated as a diagnostic tool enabling the identification and analysis of recurring features in the visual representation of social groups. The theoretical departure point is the notion of multimodal constructions developed in cognitive linguistics. 144 images are generated by prompts …
Multimodal meaning making in news communication about immigration
The communication of news relies on semiotic resources besides language, including various audiovisual modes of representation. Owing to the difficulties associated with obtaining televisual data, the vast majority of research addressing multimodality in the news has been targeted at print news media, where various strategies in visual representation and patterns of interaction between verbal and visual modes have been discerned. Where televisual…
Suicide and Its Nexus
In Indonesia, suicide research has largely overlooked structural factors at the meso and macro levels, whether as primary causes, contributing factors, or considerations for prevention strategies. The dominance of psychological and psychiatric approaches has marginalized sociological perspectives, limiting a more holistic understanding of suicide. Existing heuristic models primarily frame suicide as a consequence of mental health disorders or eco…
What’s the point of Donald Trump? Deictic gestures in the service of right-wing populism
Frames, framing and framing effects in cognitive CDA
In this paper I provide an account of frames, framing and framing effects from the perspective of cognitive linguistics as it is applied in critical discourse analysis. Frames, here, are understood as structured bundles of concepts accessed by linguistic expressions to constitute the meaning of an utterance or linguistic formulation. I describe frames at two levels: event-frames representing basic patterns of experience in domains like action and…
Effects of a psychological and physiotherapeutic intervention on the occurrence of injuries (Efectos de una intervención psicológica y fisioterapeútica sobre la ocurrencia de lesiones)
This study aims to analyse the effects of a psychological intervention focused on motivation and anxiety, in combination with a physiotherapy program, upon the occurrence of injuries. The participants were 22 male soccer players (age = 23.31, SD = 4.24). The instruments used were injury protocol, Competitive State Anxiety Inventory 2 (CSAI-2) and Behavioral Regulation in Sport Questionnaire (BRSQ). The program lasted twelve sessions a periodicity…
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodied mode that has not been subject to any systematic analysis within CDA is gesture. An area where gesture has been extensively studied, and where it is shown to bear significant semiotic load in multimodal utterances, is cognitive linguistics. Here, we use insights fro…
What can cognitive linguistics tell us about language-image relations? A multidimensional approach to intersemiotic convergence in multimodal texts
In contrast to symbol-manipulation approaches, Cognitive Linguistics offers a modal rather than an amodal account of meaning in language. From this perspective, the meanings attached to linguistic expressions, in the form of conceptualisations, have various properties in common with visual forms of representation. This makes Cognitive Linguistics a potentially useful framework for identifying and analysing language-image relations in multimodal t…
Animals vs. armies
Within the emerging paradigm of experimental Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper investigates the framing effects of dehumanising vs militarising metaphors in anti-immigration discourses. These metaphors are characterised as ‘extreme metaphors’ in so far as they are manifestly metaphorical and obviously inflammatory. Attested examples of these metaphors in political and media discourses are identified and critically analysed before their pote…
Objectification strategies outperform subjectification strategies in military interventionist discourses
A reply to Annabelle Lukin’s review of Discourse, grammar and ideology
Preview this article: A reply to Annabelle Lukin’s review of Discourse, grammar and ideology, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/langct.00017.har-1.gif
Discourses of Disorder
Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from l…
Trust-building strategies in corporate discourse
This article presents a scenario-based experiment designed to test the effects of trust-building strategies, realised in stance-taking acts, which a previous corpus-based study found to be salient features of stakeholder-facing corporate communication. The experiment relies on a between-subjects design in which a target group of subjects are exposed to trust-building strategies while another control group of subjects are not. We apply this paradi…
Riots engulfed the city’
In Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), metaphor is identified as a key index of ideology and an important device in the legitimation of social action. From this perspective metaphor is a cognitive-semiotic operation, invoked by metaphorical expressions in discourse, in which a source frame is mobilised to provide a template for sense-making inside a target frame, leading to particular framing effects. However, the extent to …
Event-Frames Affect Blame Assignment and Perception of Aggression in Discourse on Political Protests
While CDA is largely an interpretative exercise, it places an emphasis on ‘triangulation’ as a guiding methodological principle intended to help ground analyses and guard against purely subjective readings of texts. Missing from CDA, however, is triangulation incorporating experimental methodologies. In this paper, I argue that CDA in general can benefit from an experimental dimension and that Cognitive Linguistic approaches in particular lend th…
The visual basis of linguistic meaning and its implications for critical discourse studies
Two important challenges currently facing critical discourse studies (CDS) concern (1) the nature of language processing and (2) the relation between linguistic and multimodal approaches. In this article, I seek to address both issues by advancing an integrated cognitive and multimodal approach to CDS to account for the communication of ideology in linguistic discourse. This approach is predicated on an argument from Cognitive Linguistics which s…
Viewpoint in Linguistic Discourse
This paper continues to develop a programme of research which has recently emerged investigating the ideological functions of spatial construals in social and political discourse from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. Specifically, inspired by principles in Cognitive Grammar, the paper attempts to formulate a grammar of ‘point of view’ and show how this trans-modal cognitive system is manifested in the meanings of individual grammatical constru…
Introduction for the Special Issue on Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse
In the last decade, a cognitive school has begun to emerge in critical discourse analysis (CDA). Based in cognitive linguistics, this approach sees language as providing a set of indexical prompts for jointly performing a range of conceptual operations constitutive of meaning (Hart, 2010). This view of language argues that the semiotic processes involved in language rely on more general cognitive principles and processes that also function in dom…
Event-construal in press reports of violence in two recent political protests
In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker’s model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisations of violence invoked in online reports from The …
Argumentation meets adapted cognition
Critical discourse studies in context and cognition
Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse
In the last few years, a highly productive space has been created for Cognitive Linguistics inside critical discourse analysis. So far, however, this space has been reserved almost exclusively for critical metaphor studies where Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory has provided the lens through which otherwise naturalized or opaque ideological patterns in text and conceptualization can be detected. Yet Cognitive Linguistics cons…
Legitimizing assertions and the logico-rhetorical module
Critical Discourse Analysis has recently begun to consider the implications of research in Evolutionary Psychology for political communication. At least three positions have been taken: i) that this research requires Critical Discourse Analysis to re-examine and defend some of its foundational assumptions (Chilton, 2005); ii) that this research provides a useful explanatory framework for Critical Discourse Analysis in which questions can be addre…
Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an exciting research enterprise which aims to disclose ideological and persuasive properties of social and political texts. Since its inception, CDA has been theoretically eclectic, drawing its methods from linguistics and across the social sciences. However, CDA has paid relatively little attention to the relationship between text and cognition and neglected relevant developments in cognitive science. This st…
Critical discourse analysis and metaphor
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to redress this by developing a coherent theoretical framework for CDA and metaphor. This framework adopts conceptual blending theory over conceptual metaphor theory, where the latter is perceived to be incompatible with CDA. The fra…
Riots engulfed the city’
In Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), metaphor is identified as a key index of ideology and an important device in the legitimation of social action. From this perspective metaphor is a cognitive-semiotic operation, invoked by metaphorical expressions in discourse, in which a source frame is mobilised to provide a template for sense-making inside a target frame, leading to particular framing effects. However, the extent to …
Metaphorical World Politics
Are the effects of psychosocial exposures attributable to confounding? Evidence from a prospective observational study on psychological stress and mortality
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between perceived psychological stress and cause specific mortality in a population where perceived stress was not associated with material disadvantage. DESIGN: Prospective observational study with follow up of 21 years and repeat screening of half the cohort five years from baseline. Measures included perceived psychological stress, coronary risk factors, and indices of lifecourse socioeconomic posit…
Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse
In the last few years, a highly productive space has been created for Cognitive Linguistics inside critical discourse analysis. So far, however, this space has been reserved almost exclusively for critical metaphor studies where Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory has provided the lens through which otherwise naturalized or opaque ideological patterns in text and conceptualization can be detected. Yet Cognitive Linguistics cons…
Milk, coronary heart disease and mortality
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study the association between reported milk consumption and cardiovascular and all cause mortality. DESIGN: A prospective study of 5765 men aged 35-64 at the time of examination. SETTING: Workplaces in the west of Scotland between 1970 and 1973. PARTICIPANTS: Men who completed a health and lifestyle questionnaire, which asked about daily milk consumption, and who attended for a medical examination. MAIN RESULTS: 150 (2.6%) men…
Argumentation meets adapted cognition
Legitimizing assertions and the logico-rhetorical module
Critical Discourse Analysis has recently begun to consider the implications of research in Evolutionary Psychology for political communication. At least three positions have been taken: i) that this research requires Critical Discourse Analysis to re-examine and defend some of its foundational assumptions (Chilton, 2005); ii) that this research provides a useful explanatory framework for Critical Discourse Analysis in which questions can be addre…
Trust-building strategies in corporate discourse
This article presents a scenario-based experiment designed to test the effects of trust-building strategies, realised in stance-taking acts, which a previous corpus-based study found to be salient features of stakeholder-facing corporate communication. The experiment relies on a between-subjects design in which a target group of subjects are exposed to trust-building strategies while another control group of subjects are not. We apply this paradi…
Animals vs. armies
Within the emerging paradigm of experimental Critical Discourse Analysis, this paper investigates the framing effects of dehumanising vs militarising metaphors in anti-immigration discourses. These metaphors are characterised as ‘extreme metaphors’ in so far as they are manifestly metaphorical and obviously inflammatory. Attested examples of these metaphors in political and media discourses are identified and critically analysed before their pote…
Viewpoint in Linguistic Discourse
This paper continues to develop a programme of research which has recently emerged investigating the ideological functions of spatial construals in social and political discourse from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. Specifically, inspired by principles in Cognitive Grammar, the paper attempts to formulate a grammar of ‘point of view’ and show how this trans-modal cognitive system is manifested in the meanings of individual grammatical constru…
The visual basis of linguistic meaning and its implications for critical discourse studies
Two important challenges currently facing critical discourse studies (CDS) concern (1) the nature of language processing and (2) the relation between linguistic and multimodal approaches. In this article, I seek to address both issues by advancing an integrated cognitive and multimodal approach to CDS to account for the communication of ideology in linguistic discourse. This approach is predicated on an argument from Cognitive Linguistics which s…
The Nigerian elections of 1983
In 1979 Nigeria's military government held the first general elections for fifteen years. The politicians then resumed power under a republican constitution. The National Party of Nigeria, a conservative coalition, narrowly won the elections from four other parties and virtually controlled the next elections in 1983. There were five election rounds: for the President, for nine-teen state governers, for the Senate, for the House of Representatives…
What can cognitive linguistics tell us about language-image relations? A multidimensional approach to intersemiotic convergence in multimodal texts
In contrast to symbol-manipulation approaches, Cognitive Linguistics offers a modal rather than an amodal account of meaning in language. From this perspective, the meanings attached to linguistic expressions, in the form of conceptualisations, have various properties in common with visual forms of representation. This makes Cognitive Linguistics a potentially useful framework for identifying and analysing language-image relations in multimodal t…
Objectification strategies outperform subjectification strategies in military interventionist discourses
Introduction for the Special Issue on Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse
In the last decade, a cognitive school has begun to emerge in critical discourse analysis (CDA). Based in cognitive linguistics, this approach sees language as providing a set of indexical prompts for jointly performing a range of conceptual operations constitutive of meaning (Hart, 2010). This view of language argues that the semiotic processes involved in language rely on more general cognitive principles and processes that also function in dom…
Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) increasingly recognises the role played by multiple semiotic modes in the discursive construction of social identities and inequalities. One embodied mode that has not been subject to any systematic analysis within CDA is gesture. An area where gesture has been extensively studied, and where it is shown to bear significant semiotic load in multimodal utterances, is cognitive linguistics. Here, we use insights fro…
Frames, framing and framing effects in cognitive CDA
In this paper I provide an account of frames, framing and framing effects from the perspective of cognitive linguistics as it is applied in critical discourse analysis. Frames, here, are understood as structured bundles of concepts accessed by linguistic expressions to constitute the meaning of an utterance or linguistic formulation. I describe frames at two levels: event-frames representing basic patterns of experience in domains like action and…
Analysing Political Discourse
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713695016 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis --DOI : 10.1080/17405900500283706
Limitations of adjustment for reporting tendency in observational studies of stress and self reported coronary heart disease
Recently, observational evidence has been suggested to show a causal association between various "psychosocial" exposures, including psychological stress, and heart disease. Much of this evidence derives from studies in which a self reported psychosocial exposure is related to an outcome dependent on the subjective experience of coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms. Such outcomes may be measured using standard symptom questionnaires (like the Ro…
What’s the point of Donald Trump? Deictic gestures in the service of right-wing populism
Individual employment histories and subsequent cause specific hospital admissions and mortality
It is a widely held view that the labour market is demanding increased levels of flexibility, and that this is causing greater psychosocial stress among employees.1 Such stress may affect health, either through neuroendocrine pathways, or through increases in behaviours linked with poor health.2 Previously we presented evidence linking an unstable employment history, as measured by a greater number of job changes and shorter duration of current j…
Catalogue of the Emblems of Saints
Glory Roads
The Nigerian elections of 1983
In 1979 Nigeria's military government held the first general elections for fifteen years. The politicians then resumed power under a republican constitution. The National Party of Nigeria, a conservative coalition, narrowly won the elections from four other parties and virtually controlled the next elections in 1983. There were five election rounds: for the President, for nine-teen state governers, for the Senate, for the House of Representatives…
Oral presentations
of Glas- gow) Objective -To investigate the relationship between birthweight and socioeconomic dis- advantage during childhood and adolescence in a birth cohort study. Design -Longitudinal analysis of birthweight in relation to social class, financial difficulty, household amenities, and overcrowding as reported by parents at interview when the subjects were aged 7, 11, 16; and receipt of unemployment or supplementary benefits as reported by subj…
Individual employment histories and subsequent cause specific hospital admissions and mortality
It is a widely held view that the labour market is demanding increased levels of flexibility, and that this is causing greater psychosocial stress among employees.1 Such stress may affect health, either through neuroendocrine pathways, or through increases in behaviours linked with poor health.2 Previously we presented evidence linking an unstable employment history, as measured by a greater number of job changes and shorter duration of current j…
Are the effects of psychosocial exposures attributable to confounding? Evidence from a prospective observational study on psychological stress and mortality
STUDY OBJECTIVES: To examine the association between perceived psychological stress and cause specific mortality in a population where perceived stress was not associated with material disadvantage. DESIGN: Prospective observational study with follow up of 21 years and repeat screening of half the cohort five years from baseline. Measures included perceived psychological stress, coronary risk factors, and indices of lifecourse socioeconomic posit…
Milk, coronary heart disease and mortality
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study the association between reported milk consumption and cardiovascular and all cause mortality. DESIGN: A prospective study of 5765 men aged 35-64 at the time of examination. SETTING: Workplaces in the west of Scotland between 1970 and 1973. PARTICIPANTS: Men who completed a health and lifestyle questionnaire, which asked about daily milk consumption, and who attended for a medical examination. MAIN RESULTS: 150 (2.6%) men…
Limitations of adjustment for reporting tendency in observational studies of stress and self reported coronary heart disease
Recently, observational evidence has been suggested to show a causal association between various "psychosocial" exposures, including psychological stress, and heart disease. Much of this evidence derives from studies in which a self reported psychosocial exposure is related to an outcome dependent on the subjective experience of coronary heart disease (CHD) symptoms. Such outcomes may be measured using standard symptom questionnaires (like the Ro…
Analysing Political Discourse
Original article can be found at: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713695016 Copyright Informa / Taylor and Francis --DOI : 10.1080/17405900500283706
Metaphorical World Politics
Critical discourse analysis and metaphor
Critical discourse analysis (CDA) explores the role of discourse structures in constituting social inequality. Metaphorical structure, however, has received relatively little attention in explicit CDA. The paper aims to redress this by developing a coherent theoretical framework for CDA and metaphor. This framework adopts conceptual blending theory over conceptual metaphor theory, where the latter is perceived to be incompatible with CDA. The fra…
Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is an exciting research enterprise which aims to disclose ideological and persuasive properties of social and political texts. Since its inception, CDA has been theoretically eclectic, drawing its methods from linguistics and across the social sciences. However, CDA has paid relatively little attention to the relationship between text and cognition and neglected relevant developments in cognitive science. This st…
Critical discourse studies in context and cognition
Force-interactive patterns in immigration discourse
In the last few years, a highly productive space has been created for Cognitive Linguistics inside critical discourse analysis. So far, however, this space has been reserved almost exclusively for critical metaphor studies where Lakoff and Johnson’s (1980) Conceptual Metaphor Theory has provided the lens through which otherwise naturalized or opaque ideological patterns in text and conceptualization can be detected. Yet Cognitive Linguistics cons…
Legitimizing assertions and the logico-rhetorical module
Critical Discourse Analysis has recently begun to consider the implications of research in Evolutionary Psychology for political communication. At least three positions have been taken: i) that this research requires Critical Discourse Analysis to re-examine and defend some of its foundational assumptions (Chilton, 2005); ii) that this research provides a useful explanatory framework for Critical Discourse Analysis in which questions can be addre…
Event-construal in press reports of violence in two recent political protests
In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker’s model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisations of violence invoked in online reports from The …
Argumentation meets adapted cognition
Viewpoint in Linguistic Discourse
This paper continues to develop a programme of research which has recently emerged investigating the ideological functions of spatial construals in social and political discourse from a Cognitive Linguistic perspective. Specifically, inspired by principles in Cognitive Grammar, the paper attempts to formulate a grammar of ‘point of view’ and show how this trans-modal cognitive system is manifested in the meanings of individual grammatical constru…
Introduction for the Special Issue on Space, Time and Evaluation in Ideological Discourse
In the last decade, a cognitive school has begun to emerge in critical discourse analysis (CDA). Based in cognitive linguistics, this approach sees language as providing a set of indexical prompts for jointly performing a range of conceptual operations constitutive of meaning (Hart, 2010). This view of language argues that the semiotic processes involved in language rely on more general cognitive principles and processes that also function in dom…
Event-Frames Affect Blame Assignment and Perception of Aggression in Discourse on Political Protests
While CDA is largely an interpretative exercise, it places an emphasis on ‘triangulation’ as a guiding methodological principle intended to help ground analyses and guard against purely subjective readings of texts. Missing from CDA, however, is triangulation incorporating experimental methodologies. In this paper, I argue that CDA in general can benefit from an experimental dimension and that Cognitive Linguistic approaches in particular lend th…
The visual basis of linguistic meaning and its implications for critical discourse studies
Two important challenges currently facing critical discourse studies (CDS) concern (1) the nature of language processing and (2) the relation between linguistic and multimodal approaches. In this article, I seek to address both issues by advancing an integrated cognitive and multimodal approach to CDS to account for the communication of ideology in linguistic discourse. This approach is predicated on an argument from Cognitive Linguistics which s…
Riots engulfed the city’
In Cognitive Linguistic Critical Discourse Studies (CL-CDS), metaphor is identified as a key index of ideology and an important device in the legitimation of social action. From this perspective metaphor is a cognitive-semiotic operation, invoked by metaphorical expressions in discourse, in which a source frame is mobilised to provide a template for sense-making inside a target frame, leading to particular framing effects. However, the extent to …
Discourses of Disorder
Analyses media representations of riots, strikes and protests Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from l…
Trust-building strategies in corporate discourse
This article presents a scenario-based experiment designed to test the effects of trust-building strategies, realised in stance-taking acts, which a previous corpus-based study found to be salient features of stakeholder-facing corporate communication. The experiment relies on a between-subjects design in which a target group of subjects are exposed to trust-building strategies while another control group of subjects are not. We apply this paradi…
A reply to Annabelle Lukin’s review of Discourse, grammar and ideology
Preview this article: A reply to Annabelle Lukin’s review of Discourse, grammar and ideology, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/langct.00017.har-1.gif
Sociology (22 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 works) · Political science (20 works) · Linguistics (19 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (18 works) · Politics (18 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (17 works) · Philosophy (16 works) · Epistemology (13 works)