Christopher Hart
@chrishartlinguist.bsky.social
Professor of Linguistics at Lancaster University, UK. Research: political communication, cognition, multimodality. Hobbies: hill/fell walking. Views my own.
Light Up Lancaster - spectacular.
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Light Up Lancaster - spectacular.
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.
The most frequent function is common ground/obviousness where Trump shrugs to signal intersubjective alignment between him and his audience, both in terms of shared knowledge and shared values:
“We love New York values, do we agree? We love New York values”
“We love New York values, do we agree? We love New York values”
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
The most frequent function is common ground/obviousness where Trump shrugs to signal intersubjective alignment between him and his audience, both in terms of shared knowledge and shared values:
“We love New York values, do we agree? We love New York values”
“We love New York values, do we agree? We love New York values”
Trump is shown to use expansive shrugs (Horizontal Outside) more frequently than contracting shrugs with a lateral extended shrug making maximal use of the gesture space and exhibiting a kind of showmanship normally associated with live entertainment rather than politics.
October 21, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Trump is shown to use expansive shrugs (Horizontal Outside) more frequently than contracting shrugs with a lateral extended shrug making maximal use of the gesture space and exhibiting a kind of showmanship normally associated with live entertainment rather than politics.
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.
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.
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.
Huge congratulations to my amazing student Makarena Julios Costa who passed her viva today with just one correction to make. Thanks to her wonderful examiners @elenasemino.bsky.social and Sam Bennett for an engaging conversation.
June 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Huge congratulations to my amazing student Makarena Julios Costa who passed her viva today with just one correction to make. Thanks to her wonderful examiners @elenasemino.bsky.social and Sam Bennett for an engaging conversation.
Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.
June 11, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Once a year we take our @lancslinguistics.bsky.social MA students for a trip to the Lakes that involves a little hiking, a little climbing, a little caving and a little ice cream. Once again we were incredibly lucky with the weather and everyone had a great day out and a day off from dissertations.
The Boss at Anfield last night was breathtaking. Three solid hours packed full of songs I’ve been played since a kid and have continued to love and play over and over again for 35 years. A set that moved between poignant and emotional and belting rock anthems.
June 5, 2025 at 7:29 AM
The Boss at Anfield last night was breathtaking. Three solid hours packed full of songs I’ve been played since a kid and have continued to love and play over and over again for 35 years. A set that moved between poignant and emotional and belting rock anthems.
In the afternoon we had a session on AI-image generation exploring replicability issues when working with automated image tags, children’s use of AI images in creating story books, and AI-image generation as a tool for analysing the visual representation of refugees and migrants on the internet.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
In the afternoon we had a session on AI-image generation exploring replicability issues when working with automated image tags, children’s use of AI images in creating story books, and AI-image generation as a tool for analysing the visual representation of refugees and migrants on the internet.
and the importance of large language corpora in understanding and improving student’s academic writing in different disciplines.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
and the importance of large language corpora in understanding and improving student’s academic writing in different disciplines.
test user perspectives on language assessment in regulatory bodies, emotions displayed on social media by supporters of populist political parties, cross linguistic consequences of evidentially for Theory of Mind development …
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
test user perspectives on language assessment in regulatory bodies, emotions displayed on social media by supporters of populist political parties, cross linguistic consequences of evidentially for Theory of Mind development …
Colleagues including @silkebrandt.bsky.social, @danagablas.bsky.social, @lukeharding.bsky.social, @veronikakoller.bsky.social, @lukeccollins.bsky.social and others all gave fascinating talks on topics ranging from provision of multilingual services in prisons to …
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Colleagues including @silkebrandt.bsky.social, @danagablas.bsky.social, @lukeharding.bsky.social, @veronikakoller.bsky.social, @lukeccollins.bsky.social and others all gave fascinating talks on topics ranging from provision of multilingual services in prisons to …
We had a super day yesterday at the @lancslinguistics.bsky.social Research Colloquium with colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster.
May 9, 2025 at 8:47 AM
We had a super day yesterday at the @lancslinguistics.bsky.social Research Colloquium with colleagues sharing a diverse range of research conducted in connection with Linguistics and English Language at Lancaster.
In Rzeszów ahead of the Culture and Cognition in Language (CCL) conference. A very pretty and laid back city.
April 27, 2025 at 9:50 AM
In Rzeszów ahead of the Culture and Cognition in Language (CCL) conference. A very pretty and laid back city.
Views of Ullswater on a glorious day!
April 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Views of Ullswater on a glorious day!
Stunning views from the Lakes. Ullswater and Grisedale Tarn from Arnison Crag and Saint Sunday Crag.
April 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Stunning views from the Lakes. Ullswater and Grisedale Tarn from Arnison Crag and Saint Sunday Crag.
#notjustuk but from Norway, well, I would have expected better.
March 29, 2025 at 7:37 AM
#notjustuk but from Norway, well, I would have expected better.
A walk around the circumference of Derwent water with high fells best avoided on a very windy day.
March 21, 2025 at 8:45 PM
A walk around the circumference of Derwent water with high fells best avoided on a very windy day.
Views from the top of Holme Fell, looking across to the Langdale Pikes and down on Coniston Water.
March 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Views from the top of Holme Fell, looking across to the Langdale Pikes and down on Coniston Water.