How public, political and media debates are framed and negotiated, and methods for analysing them.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 31 March 2012 · Blog post
The conference abstract proposes that speakers collectively negotiate metaphors while remaining susceptible to their political force.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 21 May 2011 · Blog post
The piece argues that Britain's island geography is wrongly treated as uniquely relevant to population, housing, and burial policy.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 2 May 2011 · Blog post
The piece argues that grouping Chinese prison totals with American and Russian figures creates a misleading comparison despite using accurate numbers.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 3 April 2011 · Blog post
The piece asks why political discourse rarely extends the hawk-and-dove metaphor to hawks hunting doves.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2011 · Journalism
The piece argues that the September 11 attacks no longer justify wars that killed far more civilians and reduced civil liberties across the West.
Writing Metaphor Hacker · 30 July 2010 · Blog post
The piece argues that reframing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can expose assumptions but cannot replace political work and material power.
Writing A2 · c. 2010 · Journalism
The piece shows how describing Britain as a small island frames immigration as a problem before any evidence is considered.
Writing A2 · c. 2010 · Journalism
The piece shows how describing Britain as a small island frames immigration as a problem before any evidence is considered.
Writing A2 · c. 2010 · Journalism
The piece argues that social power and context determine which interpretations of an utterance become authoritative.
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 21 January 2009 · Essay
The piece compares trained discourse analysis with readers' interpretation of visualised political speech.
Writing dominiklukes.net (2005–2009) · 11 January 2009 · Essay
The piece uses public discussion of Bushisms to examine anaphoric mismatches and folk theories about language.
Talks Language, Culture, and Mind · July 2008 · Talk
Talks CADAAD'08 · July 2008 · Talk
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 June 2008 · Blog post
The piece argues that political opponents treat language as producing inevitable conclusions and therefore interpret disagreement as incompetence or corruption.
Talks University of Hertfordshire · 10–12 June 2008 · Organised
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 March 2008 · Blog post
The piece argues that political correctness can entrench new linguistic frames that make affirmative racial identification difficult to discuss.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 February 2008 · Blog post
The piece argues that the US Constitution's default meaning of limited copyright conflicts with laws that extend corporate control without promoting progress.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 February 2008 · Blog post
The piece asks why individuals can recognise manipulative political discourse while collective electoral behaviour often remains predictable.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 February 2008 · Blog post
The piece identifies central control and local expertise as competing models that structure policy disputes across political positions.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 18 January 2008 · Blog post
The piece argues that public arguments depend on negotiated categories, frames, and power relations rather than context-free logical validity.
Dominik Lukeš
Research Language, Culture and Mind, Odense, Denmark · 2008 · Talk with slides
Dominik Lukeš
Research CADAAD'08, Hertfordshire, UK · 2008 · Talk with slides
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 November 2007 · Blog post
The piece shows how converting a population-level gender pay gap into an individual unpaid-work scenario changes the claim's meaning and policy implications.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 October 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses an anomalous newspaper reference to suspects to show how journalistic convention can override ordinary pragmatic implicature.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 September 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that explanations of the September 11 attacks for children should present competing perspectives explicitly instead of using syntactically simplified but conceptually opaque prose.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 September 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that a linguist's account of political word change participates in frame negotiation while drawing authority from expert status.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 1 September 2007 · Blog post
The piece explains a pageant contestant's incoherent answer as a failed attempt to integrate stock public frames under pressure rather than evidence of low intelligence.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that culture-specific meanings of politeness and professionalism undermine universal instructions in a counterinsurgency manual.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece challenges the news-diet metaphor by showing that audiences exercise political autonomy in ways that simple models of media causation cannot explain.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece challenges theories that treat ordinary audiences as cognitively captive to propaganda while exempting trained analysts from the same influence.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that newspapers may persist as validators within social networks of trust even after printed news disappears.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece examines liberal and conservative narrative frames as competing but reasonable accounts of authority, freedom and institutional identity.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that journalistic anecdotes acquire truth through negotiated interpretation and that verification checklists cannot remove this dependence.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece shows how criticism of a bookstore's supplier language unpacks market metaphors and contests their interpretive privilege.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 August 2007 · Blog post
The piece analyses schematic euphemisms in Iraq war reporting and asks how discourse analysis can avoid disguising political participation as objectivity.
Talks ICLC 10, International Cognitive Linguistics Conference · August 2007 · Talk
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 July 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that idealised media narratives cannot by themselves explain changes in public opinion or electoral outcomes.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 July 2007 · Blog post
The piece examines how gendered political frames constrain Hillary Clinton's public image while remaining partly open to conscious negotiation.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 July 2007 · Blog post
The piece analyses a story of the president as an employee to show how public narratives negotiate duties between citizens and government.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 July 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that American opposition to the Iraq war collectively avoids responsibility for the consequences of the invasion.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 July 2007 · Blog post
The piece rejects a context-free semantic analysis of a school banner and argues that its anti-establishment meaning arises through shared frames.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 July 2007 · Blog post
The piece shows that historical analogies depend on opportunistic mappings whose aptness must be negotiated against the record.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 30 June 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses the phrase liberal fascism to show how generative analogies are judged through negotiated aptness and credibility rather than truth alone.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses Václav Havel's description of political language to examine how verbal patterns spread through cognitive, textual and social processes.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 June 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that scientific consensus is rhetorical and that science becomes a legitimate political participant when it enters public debate.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 June 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses a bomb image on a malfunctioning fax to show how context can override intended mappings and create practical taboos.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 May 2007 · Blog post
The piece shows how public discourse negotiates whether political statements qualify as lies and which responses a lie permits.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 May 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses reactions to a French presidential campaign to illustrate the political impulse to construct analogies across countries and candidates.
Talks University of Sheffield · May 2007 · Talk
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 27 April 2007 · Blog post
The piece shows how an explicitly named war metaphor organises the imagery and cohesion of an otherwise descriptive political text.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 April 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that media narratives of public tragedy continue older ritual forms of integrating events into personal and collective experience.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 26 April 2007 · Blog post
The piece explains how competing labels for suicide attacks negotiate connotations and restrictions on conceptual mapping.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 12 April 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses the Don Imus controversy to show how folk theories give figurative insults greater force when treated as literal references.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 April 2007 · Blog post
The piece uses commentary on Nancy Pelosi's clothing to show how cultural scenarios provide evidence for frame completion and negotiation.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 April 2007 · Blog post
The piece analyses Newt Gingrich's denial of an anti-Spanish remark through the folk frame that bilingual education produces social isolation.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 March 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that word meanings and causal analogies are negotiated in discourse rather than supplied as fixed consequences of language.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 10 March 2007 · Blog post
The piece analyses how political journalism creates, spreads and retrospectively negotiates opportunistic conceptual blends.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 16 February 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that emphatic slurs do not reliably reveal underlying prejudice and that discourse analysis cannot securely recover an individual text's hidden meaning.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 13 February 2007 · Blog post
The piece explains how semantic prosody constrained interpretations of Barack Obama's statement that soldiers' lives had been wasted.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 February 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that perceptions of articulate Black politicians depend on racialised speech cadences, group membership and unequal social power.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 February 2007 · Blog post
The piece defines frame hypostasis as language that names a cultural figure or scenario to activate and negotiate a broader conceptual frame.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece analyses how ritual qualifications and historical analogies preserve the symbolic significance of the September 11 attacks while permitting criticism.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece argues that British multiculturalism failed through symbolic exclusion that channelled young Muslims' political identity into radicalism.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece explains Hillary Clinton's joke as an underspecified analogy whose possible mappings hardened during subsequent public interpretation.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece explains comparisons between climate change and terrorism through salient danger frames and Stephen Hawking's public authority.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 4 January 2007 · Blog post
The piece criticises the use of cognitive-bias research to explain hawkish policy as a deterministic folk theory unsupported by political evidence.
Dominik Lukeš and Christopher Hart
Research Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis, pp. ix–xiii · 2007 · Chapter or afterword
Christopher Hart and Dominik Lukeš (eds.)
Research Cambridge Scholars Publishing · 2007 · Book (edited)
Dominik Lukeš
Research 2007 · Paper
Dominik Lukeš
Research New Directions in Cognitive Linguistics · 2007 · Talk with slides
Dominik Lukeš
Research International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Krakow · 2007 · Paper
Dominik Lukeš
Research University of Sheffield · 2007 · Talk with slides
Dominik Lukeš
Research Cognitive Linguistics in Critical Discourse Analysis · 2007 · Talk with slides
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 December 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that critics of free-market doctrine can reproduce the same ritualised ideological reasoning when they present their own framework as human nature.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 17 December 2006 · Blog post
The piece shows how Left Behind encodes evangelical moral frames that are intelligible within its community but contradictory outside it.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 5 December 2006 · Blog post
The piece analyses the term civil war as a negotiated frame whose descriptive, political, and scalar meanings cannot be separated.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 October 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that public discussion uses analogies to negotiate conceptual frames and the communicative medium at the same time.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 3 October 2006 · Blog post
The piece uses disputes over calling Iraq a civil war to show how media participants negotiate both descriptions and their political consequences.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 August 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that education debates negotiate competing images of schooling while overlooking the logistical burden of reform.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 August 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that a story about one student's use of Google Books cannot establish the technology's systemic effect on higher education.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 11 August 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that partisan frames shape perceptions of news bias and that readers can only challenge them through sustained questioning.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 24 July 2006 · Blog post
The piece exposes the market frame that connects national freedom with choice and competition in education policy.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 25 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece proposes testing whether public discourse exhibits recurring periods of nationalist social conservatism.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece uses a literal news headline to consider whether reporting can function as a cognitive or social act.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 9 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece distinguishes public interest from public attention and describes news selection as a market-based form of collective censorship.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 6 January 2006 · Blog post
The piece argues that school vouchers overextend a market metaphor that cannot represent education's multiple participants, purposes, and social consequences.
Dominik Lukeš
Research Cambridge Journal of Education · 2006 · Review
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 20 December 2005 · Blog post
The post identifies a radio debate about parental involvement as an example of competing and shifting cognitive models of education.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 15 December 2005 · Blog post
The post announces the first CADAAD conference and its call for papers.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that claims about video-game effects depend on narrative and cognitive schemas used to interpret evidence about large groups.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 14 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that myth-busting and scepticism are themselves narrative forms whose legitimacy must remain open to questioning.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Blog post
The post explains how news formulas structure mental spaces that are blended with events to produce political reporting and argument.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Blog post
The post compares competing schemas for interpreting scientific consensus and dissent, using obesity and climate change as examples.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 8 December 2005 · Blog post
The post compares aggregate and case-based models of media influence and shows how apparently incompatible causal accounts can be reconciled.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 December 2005 · Blog post
The post identifies the idea of human terrain as a conceptual blend connecting military targeting with cultural knowledge.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 7 December 2005 · Blog post
The post examines how arguments for universal preschool combine economic returns, individual benefits, and social outcomes within one causal model.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 2 December 2005 · Blog post
The post argues that American culture-war participants experience opposing institutions as threats to the validity of their identities and conceptual frames.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 29 November 2005 · Blog post
The post highlights how competing narratives about capitalism and labour shape arguments over job losses and social protection.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005 · Blog post
The post examines how market language about choice enters academic discourse while questioning broad claims about the damage caused by such language.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 23 November 2005 · Blog post
The post compares competing causal models of extended pub hours and argues that rule changes may create conditions for cultural values to change.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 22 November 2005 · Blog post
The post identifies an extended political analogy as a cohesive frame that holds an argument together.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Blog post
The post uses the contrast between access journalism and close reading to argue that guided analysis can matter more than expert transmission in education.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Blog post
The post examines Bosnia as an analogy for Iraq and asks how private analogies become established structures for public reasoning.
Writing Hermeneutic Heretic · 21 November 2005 · Blog post
The post highlights an account of the press as a communal ritual that sustains democratic identity.
Writing Britské listy · 28 February 2005 · Journalism
The piece argues that political scandals become intelligible through competing metaphors that select different causes and responsibilities.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2005 · Journalism
The feature explains American culture wars through their media institutions, polemical books, and Al Franken's liberal political satire.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2003 · Journalism
The piece argues that the principal justifications offered for invading Iraq do not establish a sufficient case for war.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2003 · Journalism
The column shows how George W. Bush and Saddam Hussein used metaphor to frame the Iraq War while avoiding or redirecting the word war itself.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2003 · Journalism
The piece criticises live television coverage that presents the Iraq war as spectacle while concealing the people killed by the weapons it shows.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2003 · Journalism
The essay explains how metaphors such as war on terror and Saddam as Hitler frame political reasoning and make military action appear necessary.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism
The column apologises for insulting Ludvík Vaculík while defending vigorous public argument and criticism of reputational authority.
Writing Britské listy · c. 2001 · Journalism
The piece argues that Czech media narrowed legitimate debate about war by excluding or discrediting dissenting views.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism
The open letter asks Lidové noviny to publish dissenting views on the bombing of Afghanistan and to represent Afghan civilian victims as individual human beings.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism
The essay disputes Jan Čulík's condemnation of Czech BBC broadcasting by comparing its practices with BBC Radio 4.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 2001 · Journalism
The column satirises alarmist and dull newspaper headlines while criticising editors who replace authors' titles without useful self-scrutiny.
Writing Lidové noviny · c. 1998 · Journalism
The review praises Petr Fidelius's analysis of communist language while questioning whether some identified mechanisms are specific to communism or general properties of language.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review presents The Audacity of Hope as evidence that Barack Obama's rhetoric rests on pragmatic political judgement rather than empty optimism.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece defends political correctness as a natural form of language change that challenges entrenched discrimination without by itself securing equality.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece distinguishes three meanings of civilisation and explains how conflating them can legitimise dehumanising responses to terrorism.
Writing Medium · Blog post
This essay argues that moralising about accidental phone interruptions reinforces unequal power between lecturers and their audiences.
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Writing Literární noviny · Journalism
The piece argues that the metaphor of war on terrorism obscures political causes and allows fear to redefine democratic priorities.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The piece argues that the doctrine of preventive war and political pressure for conformity defeated moral and democratic objections to invading Iraq.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review explains George Lakoff's account of American conservative and liberal morality as competing family models that structure political reasoning.
Writing Literární noviny · Journalism
The piece uses cognitive science to explain why political disputes persist when groups organise facts through different conceptual frames.
Writing Literární noviny · Journalism
The piece analyses how appeals to normality structure arguments about registered partnerships and same-sex relationships.
Writing Literární noviny · Journalism
The piece argues that competing stories of justice shape whether civil disobedience appears principled or unlawful.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The review explains how Stephen Colbert's book uses an invented conservative persona to expose contradictions in American right-wing politics.
Writing Lidové noviny · Journalism
The essay argues that treating Saddam Hussein as a metonym for all Iraqi history prevents serious comparison between his regime and post-invasion Iraq.
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