Paul Chilton Explained

Paul Chilton
Birth Date:	21 October 1944
Nationality:	British
Known For:	Cognitive linguistics; political discourse analysis
Education:	Cheadle Hulme School (formerly The Manchester Warehousmen and Clerks Orphan School)
Alma Mater:	University of Oxford

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

Chilton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the University of Lancaster.^[3]

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)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Notice de personne: Chilton, Paul Anthony (1944-....). 2020-05-31. Bibliothèque Nationale de France.
2. Baker, Paul; Ellece, Sibonile (2011). Key terms in discourse analysis. New York, N.Y.: Continuum. . OCLC 703257723
3. Web site: Professor Paul Chilton. 2019-11-20. Lancaster University.