Paul Chilton
List of John Benjamins publications in which Paul Chilton is involved.
Book series
ISSN 1569-9463
Journals
Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China
Edited by Qing Cao, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton
After three and a half decades of economic reforms, radical changes have occurred in all aspects of life in China. In an authoritarian society, these changes are mediated significantly through the power of language, carefully controlled by the political elites. Discourse, as a way of speaking and… read more
Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China
Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak
China’s opening up to the West, its extraordinary economic rise, and the subsequent internal and global issues, are an object of huge interest and concern. Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China focuses on one aspect of the contemporary Chinese phenomenon, one that is… read more[Benjamins Current Topics, 42] 2012. ix, 150 pp.
Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China
Edited by Paul Chilton, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak
Special issue of Journal of Language and Politics 9:4 (2010) v, 157 pp.
A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity
Edited by Ruth Wodak and Paul Chilton
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) has established itself over the past two decades as an area of academic activity in which scholars and students from many different disciplines are involved. It is a field that draws on social theory and aspects of linguistics in order to understand and challenge… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 13] 2005. xviii, 320 pp.
Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse
Edited by Paul Chilton and Christina Schäffner
Human beings are political animals. They are also articulate mammals. How are these two aspects linked? This is a question that is only beginning to be explored. The present collection makes a contribution to the investigations into the use of language in those situations which, informally and… read more[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 4] 2002. x, 246 pp.
Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991
Edited by Paul Chilton, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey
The year 1989 brought political upheavals in Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, the effects of which have not yet ended. The political discourse of the Cold War period disintegrated and gave way to competing alternatives. The contributors to this book are linguists, discourse analysts and social… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 36] 1998. xi, 272 pp.
2017 “The people” in populist discourse: Using neuro-cognitive linguistics to understand political meanings Right-Wing Populism in Europe & USA: Contesting Politics & Discourse beyond ‘Orbanism’ and ‘Trumpism’, Wodak, Ruth and Michał Krzyżanowski (eds.), pp. 582–594 | Article
At the centre of populism is a problem of meaning. We could simply say it is a semiotic problem, but I would like to go further, and say that it’s a cognitive problem, one intrinsic to the human nervous system. It is a characteristic of our species that becomes highly active and significant in… read more
2014 Chapter 8. Issues in discourse approach to social transformations in China: A synopsis Discourse, Politics and Media in Contemporary China, Cao, Qing, Hailong Tian and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 195–208 | Article
This chapter discusses theoretical and methodological issues concerning doing critical discourse analysis in China. The authors believe that China’s unique social, cultural and political context justifies an assumption that the Western originated paradigm of critical discourse analysis needs… read more
2012 Preface Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. vii–ix | Preface
2012 Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West Discourse and Socio-political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 1–18 | Article
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This chapter is particularly… read more
2011 Manipulation Discursive Pragmatics, Zienkowski, Jan, Jan-Ola Östman and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 176–189 | Article
2010 Preface Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 485–487 | Article
2010 Reflections on discourse and critique in China and the West Discourse and Socio-Political Transformations in Contemporary China, Chilton, Paul, Hailong Tian and Ruth Wodak (eds.), pp. 489–507 | Article
The term “critical”, as used by scholars writing under the banner of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), is in need of review in a new global intellectual environment in which diverse philosophical and political traditions are increasingly in contact with one another. This essay is particularly… read more
2009 Get and the grasp schema: A new approach to conceptual modelling in image schema semantics New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics, Evans, Vyvyan and Stéphanie Pourcel (eds.), pp. 331–370 | Article
2008 Reflections on blends and discourse Mental Spaces in Discourse and Interaction, Oakley, Todd and Anders Hougaard (eds.), pp. 251–256 | Article
2007 Geometrical concepts at the interface of formal and cognitive models: Aktionsart, aspect, and the English progressive Pragmatic Interfaces, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 91–114 | Article
The paper has two related aims. One is to outline a proposal for a spatially motivated model of discourse, called Discourse Space Theory. The other is to use this framework to explore, in a relatively formalised way, the spatial basis of the conceptual complexities arising in the uses of the… read more
2007 Challenges in the Study of Language and Politics, Challenges for JLP Journal of Language and Politics 6:3, pp. 297–301 | Editorial
2005 Missing links in mainstream CDA: Modules, blends and the critical instinct A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. 19–51 | Article
2005 Vectors, viewpoint and viewpoint shift Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics: Volume 3, Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José (ed.), pp. 78–116 | Article
Cognitive Linguistics has developed many insights into language but no systematic formalism. This article proposes that the discipline can benefit from standard geometrical formalisms. It outlines an approach called Discourse Space Theory (DST) that uses coordinate geometry and vector spaces. It… read more
2005 Manipulation, memes and metaphors: The case of Mein Kampf Manipulation and Ideologies in the Twentieth Century: Discourse, language, mind, Saussure, Louis de and Peter J. Schulz (eds.), pp. 15–43 | Article
2005 Preface A New Agenda in (Critical) Discourse Analysis: Theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity, Wodak, Ruth and Paul Chilton (eds.), pp. xi–xviii | Preface
2003 Introduction Parliamentary Discourse, pp. 1–3 | Article
2003 Manipulation Handbook of Pragmatics: 2002 Installment, Verschueren, Jef, Jan-Ola Östman, Jan Blommaert † and Chris Bulcaen (eds.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2002 Do something!: Conceptualising responses to the attacks of 11 September 2001 Identity Politics, pp. 181–195 | Discussion
2002 1. Introduction: Themes and principles in the analysis of political discourse Politics as Text and Talk: Analytic approaches to political discourse, Chilton, Paul and Christina Schäffner (eds.), pp. 1–41 | Article
2002 Introducing the Journal of Language and Politics Identity Politics, p. | Introduction
1998 Making Sense of the Cold War’s Collapse Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989–1991, Chilton, Paul, Mikhail V. Ilyin and Jacob L. Mey (eds.), pp. 15–24 | Article