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)

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