Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black

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Qualifications:
PhD
Position:
Professor Emeritus in Linguistics
Department:
Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)
Telephone:
+441173282327
Email:
Jonathan.Charteris-Black@uwe.ac.uk

About me

I have developed a rhetorically based approach to metaphor known as Critical Metaphor Analysis. it draws on methodologies and perspectives developed in corpus linguistics, critical linguistics and cognitive semantics (see Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis, Palgrave 2004). 
 
 I explain rhetorical choices - and in particular metaphor choices - with reference to individual pragmatic, cognitive and linguistic knowledge and to the social resources of culture, ideology and history.
 
I am currently working on a forthcoming 3rd edition of Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor.
 
Recent Books
 

Charteris-Black, J. (forthcoming 2026) Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse and Metaphor: London Bloomsbury 3rd edition.

Charteris-Black, J. (2021) Metaphors of Coronavirus: Invisible Enemy or Zombie Apocalypse? London: Palgrave.

Charteris-Black, J. (2019) Metaphors of Brexit: No Cherries on the cake. London: Palgrave.

Charteris-Black, J. (2018) Analysing Political Speeches: Rhetoric, Discourse  and Metaphor. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. 2ndedition.

Charteris-Black, J. (2017) Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe and Authority. London: Bloomsbury.

Recent Book Chapters

Charteris-Black J. (Forthcoming 2027) The Moral Foundation of Building Metaphors: Putin, Zelensky and the War in Ukraine. In K. Bogetic, M. Berrocal and A. Musolff (eds.) Metaphor, nation and (perma)crisis: Conceptualizing nationhood and group belonging in the ‘new normal’ Europe. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

 
 
 

 

Area of expertise

April-May 2023 Visiting Professor at the University of Toulouse (Jeane Jaure).

I have been an invited speaker at many overseas conferences including the following:

June 2025 "Is “Europa” a missed opportunity in Climate Change Narratives?". Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action", University of Bari  

June 2024 "Moral Foundations Theory & Climate Change Discourse". Discourse for Climate Change, University of Naples.

November 2023, “The Paradoxical Framing of Nature: Epiphany or Apocalypse?”University of Milan. Clavier.

October 2023, “Like a Seed Beneath the Snow: Metaphor in the Genres of Political Activist Speeches and the New Nature Writing.” Metaphor to the Text of Genres. University of Genoa.

March 2023 “Metaphor, Moral Foundations and the Covid-19 Pandemic”.Crises We Live By. University of Potsdam, Germany, 

June 2022 “Metaphor, Moral Foundations and the Covid-19 Pandemic”. Researching and Applying Metaphor.  University of Bergamo.

June 2021, ‘Bubbles’, ‘Cocoons’ and the ‘Petri Dish’: The Container Frame and the Pandemic. Researching and Applying Metaphor, University of Vilnius. 

June 2021, “Bubbles’, ‘Cocoons’ and the ‘Petri Dish’: The Container Frame and the Intersubjectivities of the Coronavirus Pandemic. “Intersubjective strategies in discourse and meaning negotiation” Toulouse II University, 

May 2018 University of Turin. Metaphor & Conflict.

May 2017 University of Oslo. Discourses of the Nation and the National.

April 2016 University of Aix en Provence, seminar series: Discourse & Seduction.

March 2016 University of Manchester. "Fire Metaphors: Discourses of Awe & Authority".

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