Professor Christopher Hart

Professor of Linguistics

Current Teaching

I currently convene the following modules at UG and PG levels:

  • LING330 Language, Cognition and Culture (UG)
  • LING324 Cognitive Linguistics (UG)
  • LING439 Cognitive Linguistics (PG)
  • LING440 Critical Discourse Analysis (PG)

I also contribute to teaching on LING103 Linguistics (UG)

Using the NewsScape corpus to explore multimodal meaning-making in TV news communication about immigration
Invited talk

Co-speech gestures in the discursive performance of right-wing populism
Invited talk

Embodied performance and right-wing populism: Co-speech gestures in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump
Invited talk

The Embodied Performance of Right-Wing Populism
Invited talk

Multimodal meaning-making in news communication about migration: Using the NewsScape Corpus to explore co-text images in TV news
Oral presentation

Multimodal Meaning-Making in News Communication about Migration: Using the NewsScape Corpus to Explore Co-Text Images in TV News
Oral presentation

Gesture in the communicative style of right-wing populism: The case of Donald Trump
Invited talk

What's the Point of Donald Trump? Deictic Gestures in the Service of Right-wing Populism
Oral presentation

Language, image and gesture in the communication of prejudice
Invited talk

The cognitive semiotics of politics: Language, image, gesture
Invited talk

Reassessing the "Critical" in Critical Discourse Studies
Invited talk

Intersemiotic Convergence in Multimodal Texts: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach
Oral presentation

Ten lectures in cognitive critical discourse analysis
Invited talk

Fire, War and Revolution: Metaphors in Media Discourses of Political Protest
Invited talk

Gesture and Legitimation in the Anti-Immigration Discourse of Nigel Farage
Oral presentation

Migration and Multimodal Semiotics: Language, Image, Gesture
Invited talk

Cognitive semiotics and the politics of immigration: Language, image and gesture in the discursive performance of prejudice
Invited talk

Animals vs. Armies: Resistance to Extreme Metaphors in Immigration Discourse
Oral presentation

What can Cognitive Linguistics tell us about text-image relations? With a focus on intersemiotic convergence
Oral presentation

"28 Palestinians Die": A Cognitive Grammar Analysis of Mystification in Press Coverage of Violence on the Gaza Border
Oral presentation

Discourses of disorder: Representations of riots, strikes and protests in globalised cities
Invited talk

With Banners Held High
Invited talk

Experimental methods in critical discourse studies
Invited talk

Discourses of Power and the Power of Discourse
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Polish Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

CDA 20+
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

CADAAD 2014
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

UK Cognitive Linguistics Pre-Conference Workshop
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Political Linguistics III
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

5th International Conference New Discourses in Contemporary China
Participation in conference -Mixed Audience

Languages, Media and Politics: Cognitive Linguistic Methods in Discourse Analysis
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

Summer School in Cognitive Linguistics
Participation in workshop, seminar, course

  • DisTex - Discourse and Text Research Group
  • LIP - Language, Ideology and Power Group
  • Research Group in Cognitive Linguistics