Professor Jonathan Charteris-Black

Room: 4D1
Telephone: +44 (0)117 32 82327
Email: Jonathan.Charteris-Black@uwe.ac.uk

Research

I am interested in an approach to metaphor that I describe as Critical Metaphor Analysis whose purpose is to explore the rhetorical motivation and influence of metaphor choice in discourse types that include political speeches, religious texts and other persuasive areas of language use; this approach is described and illustrated in my (2004) and (2005) publications. I have extended this approach to leadership communication by integrating non-verbal semiotic modes – such as symbols and symbolic actions – to produce a general theory for the ‘design of leadership style’ (Charteris-Black 2007). Previously I have undertaken a number of contrastive linguistic studies of figurative language (e.g. English and Malay) and considered their implications for second language learning and other applied linguistic contexts. Most of my work is of empirical nature so that theoretical claims are based in evidence from language use; it draws extensively on language corpora.

My current research interests are:

• figurative language
• persuasive communication
• cognitive linguistics
• corpus-based research
• phraseology
• vocabulary learning

Teaching

I teach on the first year module entitled Introduction to Text Linguistics and have developed a third year module Critical Text Analysis.

Doctoral Supervision

I have supervised theses in contrastive discourse analysis and contrastive phraseology.

Other Roles

I have reviewed submissions for a range of journals including Applied Linguistics, System and English for Specific Purposes. I have been an invited speaker on several BBC Radio 4 broadcasts and been involved in other knowledge exchange activities.

Publications

Forthcoming

Charteris-Black, J. & Seale C. Gender and the Language of Illness. (Palgrave-MacMillan).

Co-authored with Seale, C., (forthcoming 2009) Interviews and internet forums: a comparison of two sources of data for qualitative research. Qualitative Health Research

Charteris-Black, J. (forthcoming) ‘Metaphor and Gender in British Parliamentary Debates’. In K. Ahrens., Politics, Gender & Conceptual Metaphor. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins

Books (Research Monographs)

Charteris-Black, J. 2007 The Communication of Leadership: The Design of Leadership Style. London & New York: Routledge. 250 pages ISBN 0-415-37829

Charteris-Black, J. 2005 Politicians and Rhetoric: The persuasive power of metaphor. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. 239 pages. ISBN 1-4039-4689-2

Charteris-Black, J. 2004 a) Corpus Approaches to Critical Metaphor Analysis. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. 263 pages. ISBN 1-4039-3292-1

Journal Articles

Charteris-Black, J. & Seale C. (2009) ‘Men and emotion talk: evidence from the experience of illness’ Gender & Language 3(1), 81:113

Co-authored with: Dumelow C. Locock, J. Seale, C, Ziebland S. (2008) ‘The effect of joint interviewing on the performance of gender’ Field Methods 20, 107-128

Co-authored with: Seale, C. (2008) ‘The interaction of class and gender in illness narratives’ Sociology 42(3): 453-469

Co-authored with: Seale, C. (2008) ‘The interaction of age and gender in illness narratives’. Ageing and Society 28, 1025-1045

Charteris-Black, J. 2006 b) ‘Britain as a Container: Immigration Metaphors in the 2005 Election Campaign’. Discourse & Society 17(6). 563-582

Charteris-Black, J., Seale, C & Ziebland, S. & 2006 ‘Gender, cancer experience and internet use: a comparative keyword analysis of interviews and online cancer support groups’. Social Science & Medicine 62, 2577-2590

Charteris-Black, J. 2003 a) ‘Speaking with Forked Tongue: A Comparative study of Metaphor and Metonymy in English and Malay phraseology. Special edition of Metaphor and Symbol 18 (4) 289-310

Charteris-Black, J. & Musolff, A. 2003 ‘Battered hero or innocent victim? A comparative study of metaphors for Euro trading in British and German financial reporting’ English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal   22: 153-176

Charteris-Black, J. 2002 “Second Language Figurative Proficiency: A Comparative Study of Malay & English”. Applied Linguistics 23/1 104-133

Charteris-Black, J. & Ennis, T. 2001 “A Comparative study of metaphor in Spanish and English financial reporting”. English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal  Vol 20,3: 249-266.

Charteris-Black, J. 2000 a) “Metaphor and Vocabulary Teaching in ESP Economics”. English for Specific Purposes: An International Journal. Vol. 19,2: 149-165

Charteris-Black, J. 2000 b) “Figuration, lexis and cultural resonance: A corpus based study of Malay’. Pragmatics: Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association 10,3: 281-300.

Charteris-Black, J. 1999 b) “The Survival of English Proverbs: A Corpus Based Account”. Deproverbio Vol 5, No. 2. (J) URL: http://www.deproverbio.com/

Charteris-Black, J. 1995 (a) “Proverbs in Communication” Journal of Multilingual Multicultural Development 16,4. Pp. 259-268.

Charteris-Black, J. 1995 (b) “Still waters run deep- proverbs about speech and silences: A cross linguistic perspective”. Deproverbio 2. URL: http://info.utas.edu.au/docs/flonta/

Chapters in edited volumes

Charteris-Black, J. (2009) 'Metaphor and Political Communication'. In A. Musolff & J. Zinken (eds.). Metaphor and Discourse. Basingstoke & New York: Palgrave-MacMillan. 97-115

Charteris-Black, J. 2004 (b) ‘Why “an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs the storm”: A corpus-based comparative study of metaphor in British and American political discourse’. In K. Aijmer and B. Altenberg (eds.) Advances in Corpus Linguistics: Papers from the 23rd International Conference on English Language Research on Computerized Corpora (ICAME 23). Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi

Charteris-Black, J. 2003 (b) ‘A Contrastive, Cognitive Perspective on Malay and English Figurative Language’. In K.M. Jaszczolt & K. Turner (ed) Meaning Through Language Contrast. Pragmatics and Beyond New Series 99. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 141-158 ISBN 90 272 5119 3

Charteris-Black, J. 2003 (c) ‘A Prototype based approach to the translation of Malay and English Idioms’. In S. Granger, J. Lerot & S. Petch-Tyson (ed.) Corpus Based Approaches to Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies. Amsterdam & New York: Rodopi. Pp. 123-140 (ISBN: 90-420-1046-0)

Charteris-Black, J. 2001 (a) "Cultural Resonance in English and Malay Figurative Phrases: The case of 'hand'". In J. Cotteril and A. Ife (eds.) Languages Across Boundaries.  London & New York: BAAL in association with Continuum. Pp. 151-170

Charteris-Black, J. 2001 (b) 'Blood sweat and tears: a Corpus-based cognitive analysis of 'blood' in English Phraseology'. Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata: Italian Studies on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics 2001:2: 273-288

Charteris-Black, J. 1998 “Metaphor and Vocabulary in Content based EAP courses: The Case of Economics”. In J Spring & B.Gilroy (eds.) Quality Learning in English Medium Higher Education: the challenge of content, skills and language. Proceedings of the third international ELT Conference at Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. Ankara: Meteksan. Pp. 318-326.

Charteris-Black, J. 1997 (a) “Practice and Preference in second language writing instruction: A contrastive perspective”. In G. Fulcher (ed.). Writing in the Language Classroom. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall Europe. Pp. 61-76.

Charteris-Black, J. 1997 (b) “A Study of Arabic, Chinese and Malay First & Second Language Punctuation”. In A. Ryan & A Wray (eds.) Evolving Models of Language. Clevedon, Philadelphia, Toronto, Sydney, Johannesburg: BAAL & Multilingual Matters. Pp. 23-40.

Other

Charteris-Black, J. 2006 Review of Metaphorical World Politics Edited by Francis A. Beer, & Christ’l De Landtsheer. Metaphor & Symbol . Vol. 21, No. 2, Pages 127-132

Charteris-Black, J. 1999 a) "Compound Nouns and the Acquisition of English Neologisms" Paper delivered at the 50th annual meeting of the British Association of Applied Linguists, Swansea, Sept. 1997 Now published on the ERIC database (ERIC NO: ED427525).

Unpublished Conference Presentations

Aug 2008         103rd, Annual Meeting, American Sociological Association Boston, USA. “Comparative Keyword Methods”

July 2008       Critical approaches to discourse analysis across disciplines. University of Hertfordshire, “Rogue States and Rampant Bodies: Metaphors of Control in Public and Private Worlds” (Plenary)

May 2008        Seventh Conference on Researching & Applying Metaphor. University of Caceres, Spain “The blackbird on the shoulder – gender & metaphors of depression”

Sept. 2007  British Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK . “Men and emotion talk: evidence from the experience of illness”.
            
July 2007      Tenth International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics, Krakow, Poland. “Gender & Metaphor: Evidence from Men and Women Experiencing Illness”.

April 2006      Sixth Conference on Researching & Applying Metaphor, University of Leeds, UK.  “George W Bush and the Rhetoric of Moral Accounting”

July 2005        Ninth International Conference of Cognitive Linguistics. Seoul, Korea: “Tony Blair & Conviction Rhetoric”.

Sept 2003      Fifth Conference on Researching & Applying Metaphor. University of Paris 13, France. “Metaphor and Messianic myth in the political discourse of Martin Luther King”.

April 1998      International Symposium on Phraseology, University of Stuttgart, Germany. "Take heart: the motivation for the use of 'heart' in English proverbs and idioms".

Sept. 1997     British Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Birmingham. "The Acquisition of English Compound Neologisms."

Feb. 1997      Third Maghreb ESP conference, Tunisia. "Power and Prejudice: A study of native reader response to Arab L2 English Rhetoric in argumentative writing."

Sept. 1996     British Association of Applied Linguistics, University of Swansea. "The acquisition of second language punctuation."

Mar. 1996      TESOl Arabia conference, Al Ain, UAE. "Contrastive Rhetoric and the second language writing of Arab learners of English."

Research in Progress

Prof. Charteris-Black is currently undertaking research into political and leadership communication and corpus-based analysis of a large database of medical interviews for a publicly funded research project.