Paul Anthony Chilton (born 21 October 1944) is a British cognitive linguist and discourse analyst known for his work on

conceptual metaphor In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. An example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. "the pr ...

, cognitive stylistics, and political discourse. 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. Chilton is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and English Language at the

University of Lancaster , mottoeng = Truth lies open to all , established = , endowment = £13.9 million , budget = £317.9 million , type = Public , city = Bailrigg, City of Lancaster , country = England , coor = , campus = Bailrigg , faculty = ...

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)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Chilton, Paul Alumni of the University of Oxford Linguists from the United Kingdom 1944 births Living people Discourse analysts