Acknowledgements
This book represents a culmination and consolidation of ideas developed over the course of the last decade. Those ideas have been developed across papers and in conversations with many colleagues around the world and with the support of friends and family. I would therefore like to thank everybody who, in one way or another, has had a hand in making this book possible. Thanks in particular are owed to Daniel Alcaraz Carrión, Javier Mármol Queraltó and Bodo Winter from whose insights into the relation between language and image and language and gesture I have benefitted enormously. Javier and Bodo have also generously given permission for aspects of our jointly produced work to be reproduced in this book.
Thanks are also due to all of those colleagues working in Cognitive CDA and related areas who I have been fortunate to work with or talk with over the years and whose influence on the present work I hope will be obvious: Sam Browse, Piotr Cap, Jonathan Charteris-Black, Laura Filardo-Llamas, Matteo Fuoli, Marcello Giovanelli, Chloe Harrison, Lesley Jeffries, Darren Kelsey, Andreas Musolff, Steve Oswald, Josie Ryan, Peter Stockwell and Teun van Dijk. A special thanks is always reserved for Paul Chilton whose ideas continue to have a profound effect on my own thinking. At Lancaster University, I am lucky to work with colleagues who are not only brilliant academics and professional service providers but, more importantly, are fantasically kind, caring and collegial people. The Department of Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster is not only an intellectually vibrant place but a warm and familial place too. Special thanks are owed to Elena Semino, Veronika Koller, Johnny Unger and Dima Atanasova for many stimulating conversations, both along the corridor and within the Discourse and Text research group. Theoretical and analytical insights offered as part of those conversations are reflected throughout this book. Writing large parts of the book has been made possible thanks to a period of research leave granted by the Department of Linguistics and English Language and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences here at Lancaster for which I am extremely grateful. Thanks also to all in the ‘lunch crew’ whose wonderful company every day has provided a welcome break and light relief from the more serious activity of book writing. And thanks to Emily Gorman whose creative talents are on display on the front cover. Of course, while many people have contributed to this book in various ways, any errors in representation or interpretation are entirely my own.
Heartfelt thanks are also owed to my partner Heather. Writing a book is all-consuming. One’s mind is never far away from it and the boundary between professional and personal time often gets lost. I am very grateful not only for your continued love and support but for the endless and unwavering patience you have shown me since I first raised the prospect of writing another book. Finally, thanks to our two incredible children for being the coolest people in the world to hang out with and who provide a constant source of motivation and inspiration. This book is dedicated to the three of you, my family.
Parts of the book include material based on the following publications, used with permission of co-authors, editors and publishers:
Hart, C. (Reference Hart2021). ‘28 Palestinians die’: A cognitive grammar analysis of mystification in press coverage of state violence on the Gaza border. In M. Giovanelli, C. Harrison and L. Nuttall (eds.), New Directions in Cognitive Grammar and Style. Bloomsbury. Pp. 93–117.
Hart, C. and Mármol Queraltó, J. (Reference Hart and Marmol Queralto2021). What can cognitive linguistics tell us about language-image relations? A multidimensional approach to intersemiotic convergence in multimodal texts. Cognitive Linguistics 32 (4): 829–562.
Hart, C. and Winter, B. (2022). Gesture and legitimation in the anti-immigration discourse of Nigel Farage. Discourse and Society 33 (1): 34–55.
