| Paul Chilton | |
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| Born | (1944-10-21) October 21, 1944 (age 80) |
| Nationality | British |
| 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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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. Chilton developed a three-dimensional model to analyze semantic structure in natural languages, basd 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.
Chilton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Lancaster.
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)
References
- "Notice de personne: Chilton, Paul Anthony (1944-....)". Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Retrieved 2020-05-31.
- Baker, Paul; Ellece, Sibonile (2011). Key terms in discourse analysis. New York, N.Y.: Continuum. ISBN 9781441173133. OCLC 703257723
- "Professor Paul Chilton". Lancaster University. Retrieved 2019-11-20.