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Christopher Hart

Email: christopher.hart@uea.ac.uk

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Christopher Hart holds a degree in Linguistics and an MA in Linguistics, Society and Culture. His interests include Critical Discourse Analysis, Cognitive Linguistics and Evolutionary Psychology. He his currently affiliated to the University of East Anglia, Norwich where, reflecting these interests, his PhD research is toward an interdisciplinary (cognitive) CDA of immigration metaphors. Together with Dominik Lukes, he is co-founder of Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD).

Link to CADAAD

Publications

Hart, C. and Lukes, D. (eds.) (in preparation). Cognitive Lingiustics in Critical Discourse Studies: Application and Theory. Under contract to Cambridge Scholars Press.

Hart, C. (2006). 'Book review of F.A Beer and C. De Landtsheer (eds.) (2004), Metaphorical World Politics'. Journal of Pragmatics 38: 1135-1140.

Hart, C. (2005). 'Analysing Political Discourse: Toward a cognitive approach'. Critical Discourse Studies 2 (2): 189-194.

Available unpublished work

Spatial Understanding: On the Conceptual Semantics of 'In'. MA Thesis

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Presentations

'Containers, conceptual blends and discourse space in immigration metaphors: referential and evaluative strategies'. Paper presented at the 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.

'Communication, cognition and ideology: a critical analysis of UK immigration metaphors'. Paper presented at the II International Workshop, Metaphor and Discourse: where Cognition and Communication Meet. Castello, 2-3 Febuary 2006.