Christopher Hart

Chris Hart is currently lecturer in English Language and Communication at the University of Hertfordshire. He studied linguistics at the University of East Anglia before completing an MA there in Linguistics, Society and Culture. He is currently in the process of finishing his PhD at Lancaster University, entitled Critical Discourse Analysis and Cognitive Science: Applying Cognitive Linguistics and Evolutionary Psychology. He is co-editor of the volume Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory (Cambridge Scholars Press 2007) and author of several articles/chapters concerning metaphor and other aspects of meaning construction in discourse on immigration. He has published in international journals like Critical Discourse Studies and presented papers at numerous international conferences. Chris is co-organiser of the first and second international conferences CADAAD 2006 and 2008. He is also co-editor of the journal Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines and was recently elected as a board member of the UK Cognitive Linguistics Association.

Peer reviews of Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis: Application and Theory include the following: "this intellectually stimulating volume successfully integrates different approaches to Critical Discourse Analysis with a range of Cognitive Linguistic approaches" (Jonathan Charteris-Black, University of West England); "this coherent and well-planned volume represents a major contribution to the multi-disciplinary project bridging the cognitive and the social approaches to discourse description, pragmatic interpretation and ideological explanation" (Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University); "this is an exciting and ground-breaking book, which represents the state-of-the-art in cognitively-oriented Critical Discourse Analysis" (Elena Semino, Lancaster University).

Hart, C. (2008). Critical discourse analysis and metaphor: Toward a theoretical framework. Critical Discourse Studies 5 (2): 91-106

Hart, C. (2007). Book review of J. Charteris-Black (2004), Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis. Cognitive Linguistics 18 (1): 100-10.

Hart, C. (2006). Book review of F.A Beer and C. De Landtsheer (eds.) (2004), Metaphorical World Politics. Journal of Pragmatics 38: 1135-40.

Hart, C. (2005). Analysing Political Discourse: Toward a cognitive approach' Critical Discourse Studies 2 (2): 189-94

Available unpublished work

'Meaning construction in conditional statements: Ideology, Argumentation and Implicature'. Paper presented at second internation conference, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines. Hertfordshire, 10-12 July 2008.

'Critical discourse analysis and conceptualisation: Strategic functions of distance and proximity in discourse space'. Paper presented at Political Linguistics. Warsaw, 13-15 September 2007.

'Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse analysis: Mental spaces, blended spaces and discourse spaces in immigratin rhetoric'. Paper presented at 2nd UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Cardiff, 27-30 August 2007.

'Cognitive linguistics in critical discourse analysis: Strategic functions of metaphor'. Paper presented at 10th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference. Krakow, 15-20 July 2007.

'Strategic functions of metaphor in immigration discourse: Containers, conceptual blends and discourse space'. Paper presented at Cognitive Approaches to Metaphors of Power. Helsinki, 12-13 October 2006.

'Containers, conceptual blends and discourse space in immigration metaphors: Referential and evaluative strategies'. Paper presented at first international conference, Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines. Norwich, 29-30 June 2006.

'Containers and conceptual blends in immigration metaphors: Analysis and theory in cognitive CDA'. Paper presented at National Identities, National Stereotypes in Langauge and Text session at the 37th Poznan Linguistic Meeting. Poznan, 20-23 April 2006.


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