Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black

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Professor in Linguistics

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Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries, and Education (ACE)

Qualifications:PhD
Position:Professor 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 3^rd 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. 2^ndedition.

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

Area of expertise

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

Over the last few years I have been an invited speaker at a number of overseas conferences including the following:

June 2025 Engaging Communities in Environmental and Climate In/Action: Narratives, Discursive Practices, and Transdisciplinary Approaches, Bari.

June 2024 Discourse for Climate Change, Naples.

November 2023, University of Milan. Clavier

October 2023, University of Genoa. Metaphor to the Text of Genres

March 2023 University of Potsdam, Germany, Crises We Live By.

June 2022 University of Bergamo, Italy, Researching and Applying Metaphor.

June 2021, University of Vilnius. Researching and Applying Metaphor,

June 2021, Toulouse II University, “Intersubjective strategies in discourse and meaning negotiation”

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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