Christopher Hart
@chrishartlinguist.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Research: political communication, cognition, multimodality. Hobbies: hill/fell walking. Views my own.
I did a lecture yesterday on time conceptualisation in different languages pointing to different axes and orientations of the mental timeline. A student very sensibly asked whether “reversed” mental timelines exist in any sign languages around the world. Does anybody know of any papers on this?
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 AM
I did a lecture yesterday on time conceptualisation in different languages pointing to different axes and orientations of the mental timeline. A student very sensibly asked whether “reversed” mental timelines exist in any sign languages around the world. Does anybody know of any papers on this?
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Do not miss the deadline... It's closing soon!
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Do not miss the deadline... It's closing soon!
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November 24, 2025 at 5:51 PM
⌛One week left to submit panel proposals!
🗓️ And then two more to submit abstracts for papers and posters!!
Do not miss the deadline... It's closing soon!
#CADAAD2026
🔗 www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...
🗓️ And then two more to submit abstracts for papers and posters!!
Do not miss the deadline... It's closing soon!
#CADAAD2026
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Views of Loughrigg Tarn on a low level walk.
November 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Views of Loughrigg Tarn on a low level walk.
Light Up Lancaster - spectacular.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Light Up Lancaster - spectacular.
New paper: delighted that this paper should be published while I happen to be at the multimodality conference in Groningen: doi.org/10.1177/0957...
Using generative AI to investigate the multimodal representation of refugees and migrants - Christopher Hart, 2025
This article uses AI-generated images to consider patterns in the way refugees and migrants are visually represented on the internet. AI text-to-image generatio...
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October 31, 2025 at 8:49 AM
New paper: delighted that this paper should be published while I happen to be at the multimodality conference in Groningen: doi.org/10.1177/0957...
Very excited to be arriving in Groningen for the International Conference on Multimodality. Such an amazing looking program. sites.google.com/rug.nl/12icom
12ICOM Groningen
12th International Conference on Multimodality in Groningen
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October 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Very excited to be arriving in Groningen for the International Conference on Multimodality. Such an amazing looking program. sites.google.com/rug.nl/12icom
Our study of Trump’s shrugging gestures features in the PsyPost with a nice summary from Eric Dolan: www.psypost.org/what-scienti...
What scientists found when they analyzed 187 of Donald Trump's shrugs
A study in Visual Communication suggests Donald Trump's shrug is a strategic tool to build rapport. Rather than expressing ignorance, the gesture often signals that a statement is an obvious truth he ...
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October 28, 2025 at 1:50 PM
Our study of Trump’s shrugging gestures features in the PsyPost with a nice summary from Eric Dolan: www.psypost.org/what-scienti...
Autumn colours in one of the many quads on campus.
October 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Autumn colours in one of the many quads on campus.
New paper out in Visual Communication with Steve Strudwick (open access). Taking a stance through stance: The forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Taking a stance through stance: the forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump - Christopher Hart, Steve Strudwick, 2025
The communicative style of right-wing populism is characterized by embodied modes of performance as much as verbal stylistic features. This article investigates...
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October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
New paper out in Visual Communication with Steve Strudwick (open access). Taking a stance through stance: The forms and functions of shrugs in the spoken discourse of Donald Trump.
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
doi.org/10.1177/1470...
Incredible temperature inversion seen from the top of Fairfield.
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Incredible temperature inversion seen from the top of Fairfield.
Views from the Fairfield horseshoe on a lovely autumn day.
September 27, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Views from the Fairfield horseshoe on a lovely autumn day.
It’s been a while since I posted a pic of this fabulous boy so here he is today. Milo the cat.
September 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
It’s been a while since I posted a pic of this fabulous boy so here he is today. Milo the cat.
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The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open!
The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies."
Dates: 8-10 July
For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...
The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies."
Dates: 8-10 July
For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...
CADAAD 2026
Welcome to CADAAD 2026 We are delighted to announce that the 2026 edition of the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines (CADAAD) conference will be hosted by the University of Va...
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September 22, 2025 at 10:04 AM
The CfA for the @cadaad2026.bsky.social conference at @uva-es.bsky.social is now open!
The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies."
Dates: 8-10 July
For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...
The conference theme is "Beyond Physical and Symbolic Spaces: Methods and Challenges in Critical Discourse Studies."
Dates: 8-10 July
For more details on the conference: www.cadaad2026.com/138021/detai...
Two reviews in two days! Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics reviewed by Lili Gui and Shaohua Wang in the Journal of Language and Politics: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Review of Hart (2025): Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics | John Benjamins
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September 19, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Two reviews in two days! Language, Image, Gesture: The Cognitive Semiotics of Politics reviewed by Lili Gui and Shaohua Wang in the Journal of Language and Politics: www.jbe-platform.com/content/jour...
Thanks to Matthew Voice for this lovely review of Language, Image, Gesture just out in Discourse & Society. Captures perfectly what I was trying to achieve in the book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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September 18, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Thanks to Matthew Voice for this lovely review of Language, Image, Gesture just out in Discourse & Society. Captures perfectly what I was trying to achieve in the book. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writer’s Competition! If you’d like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free year’s subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.
September 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Attention young linguists! @BabelZine.bsky.social is running their 11th-annual Young Writer’s Competition! If you’d like to get your writing published in Babel and win a free year’s subscription, consider submitting your work! Submission details below.
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New linguistics meme dropped
September 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
New linguistics meme dropped
If you're interested in sociolinguistics, mining communities, and can speak German, this will be fascinating and is a great opportunity: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Fellow in Linguistics:City Campus
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September 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
If you're interested in sociolinguistics, mining communities, and can speak German, this will be fascinating and is a great opportunity: vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Stunning colours on Place Fell today as autumn dawns.
September 6, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Stunning colours on Place Fell today as autumn dawns.
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Save the date!
We'll be hosting an A Level English Language Student Conference at Friends House, London, on 27th November! Booking opens 17th September, and keep an eye on our website for more details: buff.ly/Xka0Qu9
We'll be hosting an A Level English Language Student Conference at Friends House, London, on 27th November! Booking opens 17th September, and keep an eye on our website for more details: buff.ly/Xka0Qu9
August 12, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Save the date!
We'll be hosting an A Level English Language Student Conference at Friends House, London, on 27th November! Booking opens 17th September, and keep an eye on our website for more details: buff.ly/Xka0Qu9
We'll be hosting an A Level English Language Student Conference at Friends House, London, on 27th November! Booking opens 17th September, and keep an eye on our website for more details: buff.ly/Xka0Qu9
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Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask?
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
July 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Which newspapers get talked about in UK parliament debates you (didn't) ask?
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
Well, these ones.
The Times is consistently top, Financial Times also quite consistently relevant. The Daily Mail decreasingly so.
Data from www.clarin.si/ske/#open
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🚨 CfP open!
❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics?
➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online.
📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
🎤Four plenary speakers
🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025
eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...
❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics?
➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online.
📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
🎤Four plenary speakers
🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025
eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...
July 24, 2025 at 6:41 AM
🚨 CfP open!
❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics?
➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online.
📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
🎤Four plenary speakers
🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025
eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...
❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics?
➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online.
📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
🎤Four plenary speakers
🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025
eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...
Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.
July 23, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Needed to take my daughter into work for a short time today so while there our amazing @phoneticslab.bsky.social let her ultrasound her tongue! She thought it was very, very cool.
Turned off the England-Sweden match last night around 65 minutes! What a terrible mistake! 🤦♂️
July 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Turned off the England-Sweden match last night around 65 minutes! What a terrible mistake! 🤦♂️
