Professor Paul Chilton

Professor

Degree: MA (Oxford), D.Phil. (Oxford)

Associated research centres and groups: Language, Ideology and Power Group (LIP), Pragmatics and Stylistics Research Group , Theoretical Linguistics - RITL

Current Teaching

MA Pragmatics

MA Linguistic Analysis

MA Introduction to Discourse studies

Research Interests

PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

(1977) The Poetry of Jean de La Ceppède: A Study in Text and Context, Clarendon Press, Oxford.

(1988) Orwellian Language and the Media, Pluto Press, London.

(1996) Security Metaphors: Cold War Discourse from Containment to Common European Home, Peter Lang, Berne and New York.

(2004) Analysing Political Discourse: Theory and Practice, London, Routledge

EDITED VOLUMES

(1983) Nineteen eighty-four in 1984: Autonomy, Control and Communication, co-edited with C. Aubrey, Comedia Publishing Group, London (Introduction, pp. 1-6; essay, pp. 33-44)

(1985) Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate, Pinter, London, 244pp. (Introduction, pp. xiii-xxiii; chapter listed below, pp. 103-27)

(1993) Discourse and Political Change in Europe, guest editor with Mikhail V. Ilyin, Discourse and Society, 4 (1), special issue, Sage, London (Foreword, pp. 4-6; article listed below, pp. 7-31)

(1998) Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989-91, co-edited with Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey, John Benjamins, Amsterdam/Philadelphia (includes chapter, pp. 15-24, listed below)

(2002) Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse, co-edited with Christina Schäffner, John Benjamins, Amsterdam

(2005) A New Research Agenda in Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity, ed. R. Wodak and P. Chilton, John Benjamins

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS PUBLISHED

Language, Linguistics and Discourse

(1979) 'On the Theory of Register', Nottingham Linguistics Circular, 7 (.2), pp. 113-30

(1979) 'The Sounds and Sound-Changes of Pseudolanguage: a Case Study', Anthropological Linguistics, 21 (3), pp. 124-46

(1982) 'Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Culture and Propaganda' in C. Aubrey (ed.), Nukespeak: The Media and the Bomb, Comedia Publishing Group, London, pp. 94-112

(1983) 'Newspeak' in C. Aubrey and P. Chilton (eds.), Nineteen eighty-four in 1984: Autonomy, Control and Communication, Comedia Publishing Group, London, pp. 33-44

(1983) 'Orwell's Conception of Language' in B. Suykerbuyk (ed.), Essays from Oceania and Eurasia, Progressef, Antwerp, pp. 99-110

(1984) 'Orwell et Saussure: une confrontation', La Quinzaine littéraire, no. 411

(1984) 'Orwell, Language and Linguistics', Language and Communication, 4 (2), pp. 129-46

(1985) 'Words, Discourse and Metaphors: the Meanings of deter, deterrent, and deterrence', in Language and the Nuclear Arms Debate, ed. P.A. Chilton, Pinter, London, pp. 103- 27

(1987) 'Co-operation and Non-co-operation: Ethical and Political Aspects of Pragmatics', Language and Communication, 7 (3), pp. 221-29

(1987) 'Metaphor, Euphemism and the Militarization of Language', Current Research on Peace and Violence, 10 (1), pp. 7-19

(1988) 'Metaphors and Models of International Relations', Englisch-Amerikanische Studien, 3, 4/88, pp. 395-406

(1989) with George Lakoff, 'Foreign Policy by Metaphor', Center for Research in Language Newsletter, 3, pp. 5-19, University of California, Berkeley

(1990) 'Politeness, Politics and Diplomacy', Discourse and Society, 1 (2), pp. 201-24

(1990) 'Po tu storonu bezopastnosti: metafora u predelov politicheskoj mysli' [Russian translation of unpublished English original] in Rabochij klass i sovremennij mir, 5 (119), pp. 66-75

(1991) 'Métaphore et légitimation de la guerre du Golfe', Alternatives non-violentes, 79 (juin 1991), pp. 54-60; English version, 'Getting the Message Through: Metaphor and Legitimation in the Gulf War' in Ruth Reiher (ed.), Sprache im Konflikt, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 1994

(1993) with M. V. Ilyin, 'Metaphor in Political Discourse: the Case of the "Common European House" ', Discourse and Society, 4 (1), pp. 7-31

(1994) 'Language and Politics' in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Pergamon Press/Aberdeen University Press

(1994) 'Newspeak', ibid.

(1994) 'Nukespeak', ibid.

(1994) 'Antilanguage', ibid.

(1994) ' "La plaie qu'il convient de fermer..." Les métaphores du discours raciste', Journal of Pragmatics, 21 (6), pp. 583-619

(1994) 'Schémas cognitifs du discours raciste français' in J. Berting and C. Vilain-Gandossi (eds.), The Role of Stereotypes in International Relations, Rotterdam Institute for Social Policy Research (Studies in Socio-cultural Transformation, no. 4), Rotterdam

(1995) with G. Lakoff, 'Metaphor in Foreign Policy Discourse' in C. Schäffner and

A. Wenden (eds.), Language and Peace, Dartmouth, Aldershot

(1996) 'The Meaning of Security' in F. A. Beer and R. Hariman (eds.), Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations, Michigan State University Press, East Lansing, pp. 193-216

(1997) 'Discourse and Politics', co-authored with Chrstina Schaeffner, in Teun A. van Dijk (ed.), Discourse as Social Interaction. Discourse Studies: A Multidisciplinary Introduction, volume 2, pp. 6-23

(1998) 'Making Sense of the Cold War's Collapse' in P. A. Chilton, M. V. Ilyin and J. L. Mey (eds.), Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989-1991, Amsterdam, John Benjamins, pp. 15-24

(1998) 'The Role of Language in Human Conflict: Prolegomena to the Investigation of Language as a Factor in Conflict Causation and Resolution' in S. Wright (ed.), Language and Conflict: A Neglected Relationship, Clevedon, Multilingual Matters, pp. 2-17

(1999) 'Grenzsemanitik' in S. Kirkbright (ed.), Nachdenken über Grenzen, Munich, Judicium, pp. 15-38

(2000) 'Participant Roles and the Analysis of Leadership Discourse: British and American Leaders Explain the Kosovo Crisis' in K. P. Schneider (ed.), Language Use, Language Acquisition and Language History: (Mostly) Empirical Studies in Honour of Rüdiger Zimmermann, Wissenschaftlicher Veralag Trier, Trier

(2001) 'Analysing the Language of Politics: Xenophobic and Racist Discourse' in O. Panagl, H. Goebl and E. Brix, Der Mensch und seine Sprache(n), Böhlau, Vienna, pp. 157-90

(2002) 'Language, Communication and Discourse' in Taipale et al., War or Health? A Reader, University Press, Dhaka, etc.: 366-378

(2002) 'La défense européenne, condition nécessaire à la formation d'une identité

européenne?', La revue internationale et stratégique, 48 (hiver), pp.109-118

(2002) 'Manipulation' in Jef Verschueren, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), Handbook of Pragmatics, Amsterdam/Philadelphia, John Benjamins

(2002) 'Do something! Conceptualising responses to the attacks of 11 September 2001', Journal of Language and Politics, 1 (1):

(2002) P. Chilton and C. Schäffner, 'Introduction: Themes and principles in the analysis of political discourse' in P. Chilton and C. Schäffner (eds.), Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic Approaches to Political Discourse, John Benjamins, Amsterdam

(2003) 'Deixis and Distance: President Clinton's Justification of Intervention in Kosovo' in At War with Words, ed. Mirjana, N. Dedaic and Daniel N. Nelson, Berlin, Mouton de Gruyter

(2004) 'Metarepresentation, discourse and discourse spaces' in Marques, M. Aldina (ed.), Práticas de investigação em Análise Linguística do Discurso - Actas do II Encontro Internacional de Análise Linguística do Discurso, Cehum, Braga

(2005) 'Missing Links in Mainstream CDA: Modules, Blends and the Critical Instinct ' in A New Research Agenda in Critical Discourse Analysis: Theory and Interdisciplinarity, ed. R. Wodak and P. Chilton, John Benjamins

(2005) 'Manipulation, Memes and Metaphors: The Case of Mein Kampf' in L. de Saussure (ed.), Manipulation, Amsterdam, John Benjamins

(2005) 'Discourse Space Theory: Geometry, Brain and Shifting Viewpoints, Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics, vol. 3, pp. 78-116

(2006) 'Political Terminology', Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd Ed. , Edited by Keith Brown, Elsevier: Oxford

(2006) Rundblad, G., Chilton P.A., Hunter, P. R., An Enquiry into Scientific and Media Discourse in the MMR Controversy: Authority and Factuality.Communication and Medicine 3.1: 69-80.

(2006) 'Negation as Maximal Distance in Discourse Space Theory', Groupe de Recherches Anglo-Américaines de Tours

(2007) 'Geometrical Concepts at the Interface of Formal and Cognitive Models: Aktionsart and Aspect in English', Pragmatics and Cognition, 15 (1): 91-114

IN PRESS

(2007) 'Reflections on Blends and Discourse'in Mental Spaces Approaches to Discourse and Interaction, John Benjamins

(2007) 'The Abstract Discourse Space: Vector Representation and Co-ordinate Transformation', chapter in P. A. Chilton and V. Evans (eds.), Language, Cognition and Space: the State of the Art and New Directions

(2007) 'Get and the grasp schema: a new approach to conceptual modelling in image schema semantics, New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics, ed. S. Pourcel, Benjamins, Amsterdam.

IN PREPARATION

Book

(2008) Space, Time and Distance: Discourse Space Theory, Amsterdam, John Benjamins

Co-edited book

(2007) (with V. Evans, Sussex), Language, Cognition and Space: the State of the Art and New Directions, two volumes, Equinox, London

Articles and chapters

(2007) 'Critical Discourse Analysis', The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences, Cambridge University Press

(2008) 'From metaphor to metaphorical expressions: the forms of metaphor and discourse coherence" in A. Musolff and J. Zinken (eds.), Palgrave Macmillan

(2008) 'Text Linguistics' in J. Culpeper, F. Katamba, P. Kerswill and R. Wodak (eds.), English Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan

ADDENDA

LITERARY STUDIES

(1980) 'Les sonnets religieux de François Maynard: des réflexions stylistiques et sémantiques', Cahiers Maynard, no.10, pp. 14-38

(1983) 'Autonomy and Paradox in Literary Theory', Journal of Literary Semantics, vol.12, no.1, pp. 73-91

(1985) 'The épaves of the Heptaméron: Some Quantitative and Qualitative Clues to their Attribution', Studi Francesi, pp. 449-67

(1987) 'Jean de La Ceppède: Les Théorèmes' in D. Rubin (ed.), Poésies du premier 17e siècle, Textes et Contextes, Narr Verlag and J. Place, Tübingen and Paris, pp. 65-97

(1987) 'Jean Auvray: choix de textes', ibid., pp. 111-19

(1989) 'Humanism and War in the Work of Rabelais and Montaigne' in J. R. Mulryne and M. Shewring (eds.), War, Literature and the Arts in Sixteenth-Century Europe, Warwick Studies in the European Humanities, Macmillan, London, pp. 119-43

(1989) 'Devout Humanism' in Harvard History of French Literature, ed. D. Hollier, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., pp. 253-8

(1997) 'La Boétie' in Protest, Power and Change. An Encyclopedia of Nonviolent Action from ACT-UP to Women's Suffrage, ed. W. Vogele, Garland Publishing Inc., New York and London, p.299

(1997) 'Voluntary Servitude', ibid., pp. 556-557

TRANSLATIONS

(1971) translation of Jean Piaget, Mental Imagery in the Child, Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 396pp.

(1984) translation and introduction, Marguerite de Navarre, The Heptameron, Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, 543 pp., of which pp. 7-44 are a critical introduction

Potential Doctoral Proposals

• Cognitive Linguistics. Conceptual metpahor theory and blending theory. Semantics of manner and motion verbs. Repesentation of space, time and modality. Cognitive appraoches to discourse. Comparative approaches between two or more languages are especially welcome.
• The analysis of political discourse, especially comparative approaches, grounded in sound linguistic methods of description. Studies of discourse in languages other than English are welcome.
• Cogntive Stylistics. Research on literary texts within a cogntive-linguistic or discourse-analytical framework.

Currently my PhD students in cognitive linguistics are working on: icnonicity, classifiers in Mandarin, manner-motion verbs in Italian and English, semantic maps, cognitive approaches to critical discourse analysis.

Research in the field of discourse studies includes: public discourse in English and French, gendered representation in Chinese popuilar fiction and in Greek lifestyle magazines, language ideology in the United States,political discourse in Kenya.

Keywords: Cognitive linguistics, Critical discourse analysis, Discourse analysis, French, Language politics, Literary stylistics, Pragmatic theory, Semantics, Spatiality, Stylistics

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