{"id":25,"date":"2018-05-29T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T10:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2021-06-10T10:24:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T10:24:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. My work draws on insights and methods from cognitive science and critical discourse analysis to investigate the links between language, cognition and social\/political action.<\/p>\n

Specifically, I use models developed in Cognitive Linguistics,<\/strong> including cognitive grammar, conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual semantics, to analyse the ideological and de\/legitimating potential of conceptualisations evoked by linguistic (and other semiotic) forms found in political and media discourses.<\/p>\n

I am also interested in multimodality<\/strong> including, specifically, the relationship between language and image in multimodal texts as well as the role of gesture in situated political communication.<\/p>\n

I often use experimental methods<\/strong> to investigate empirically the effects of textual features on audience attitudes and responses to social\/political issues.<\/p>\n

Much of my work is focussed on anti-immigration discourses and discourses of civil disorder in the form of riots, strikes and protests.<\/p>\n

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I am Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University. My work draws on insights and methods from cognitive science and critical discourse analysis to investigate the links between language, cognition and social\/political action. Specifically, I use models developed in Cognitive Linguistics, including cognitive grammar, conceptual metaphor theory and conceptual semantics, to analyse the ideological and de\/legitimating […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":374,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-25","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P9XeM9-p","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":36,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/books\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":0},"title":"Books","author":"Christopher Hart","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Hart, C. (2025). Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics. Cambridge University Press. Politics is an inherently symbolic practice. This innovative book advances a framework for the critical analysis of political texts and talk based in cognitive linguistics. Through detailed analyses of attested semiotic practices, it provides a current,\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/assets.cambridge.org\/97810092\/57541\/cover\/9781009257541.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":40,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/teaching-supervision\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":1},"title":"Teaching & Supervision","author":"Christopher Hart","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"At Lancaster University I teach courses in Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics and Cognitive Science as part of our BA Programme in Linguistics \u00a0and our MA Programme in Language and Linguistics. At doctoral level, I am happy to receive proposals for research projects in any area combining critical discourse analysis\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/articles-chapters\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":2},"title":"Articles & Chapters","author":"Christopher Hart","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles | Chapters in Edited Collections | Popular Pieces Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles Hart, C. (submitted). Metaphor, multimodality and generative AI: Synthetic images prompted by figurative expressions in anti-immigration discourse. Complex social processes like migration are frequently understood via metaphors. In right-wing media and far-right political discourses, two metaphors\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":42,"url":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/doctoral-students\/","url_meta":{"origin":25,"position":3},"title":"Doctoral Students","author":"Christopher Hart","date":"May 29, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Current Steve Strudwick - Experimental methods in CDA Danyang Li - Metaphor, covid-19, cultural differences, corpus linguistics, experimental methods Xinmei Sun - Frame semantics, impartiality, parliamentary briefing reports for MPs Maria Julios Costa - CDA, prejudice, prognostic critique, experimental methods Noha Kader\u00a0- CDA, argumentation, multimodality, far-right, English Defence League, Britain\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/374"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/25\/revisions\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/christopherhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}