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Journal articles on the topic "Legal metaphors"
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Hamilton, Jonnette Watson. "Metaphors of Lawyers' Professionalism." Alberta Law Review 33, no. 4 (1995): 833. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/alr1121.
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This article examines three common metaphors in several professional codes of legal conduct and supporting documents. The metaphors are the "metaphoric networks" based on the military, gentility and Christianity. Numerous examples of all three metaphoric networks are given. Metaphors are non-arbitrary. The three metaphoric networks examined here are consistent with one of the most common orientation metaphors in the English language, the metaphor expressing relationships in bodily terms of "up" and "down." These metaphoric networks evoke a hierarchy of society based on a strictly male, ethnocentric British-Canadian world. The lawyer reading the codes of conduct that contain these metaphors would see the image of the lawyer created according to the lawyer's own inclusion within or exclusion from that ideal. Also, this social elitism may contribute to the public's lack of respect for the legal profession.
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Vegara Fabregat, Laura. "Legal metaphors in translation." Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2, no. 2 (2015): 330–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/cogls.2.2.06veg.
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There is wide literature on metaphor and legal language (e.g., Henly 1987; Twardzisz 2008, amongst many others). Certainly, metaphor is a part of legal language (Alcaraz and Hughes 2002: 43), but not just an ornamental part. Metaphors may play a very important role in legal texts, a cognitive role. They can convey intricate legal notions and may also communicate certain opinions and perspectives (Dickerson 1996: 374; Joo 2002: 23). Another interesting aspect connected with metaphors in the language of law is translation. We must bear in mind that legal translation has its own special difficulties, such as complex terminology and usually two very dissimilar legal systems as background (Soriano 2002: 53; Gémar 2002: 167). Metaphorical expressions constitute an additional hindrance for legal translators since they transfer a metaphorical image together with a legal concept. In the present study we aim at analysing some metaphorical expressions found in the United States Supreme Court opinions and their translation. We will focus on the scrutiny of some English–Spanish translation strategies in order to comment on the solutions adopted. Our hope is to shed some light on the field of legal translation regarding metaphors.
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Makela, Finn. "Metaphors and Models in Legal Theory." Les Cahiers de droit 52, no. 3-4 (2011): 397–415. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1006668ar.
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In this article, the author argues that metaphors can be used as the basis for creating models in legal theory. Drawing on the literature on metaphor from the philosopy of language, he contends that metaphors are best understood as speech acts that propose a hypothesis of similarity between two separate domains. This kind of domain mapping, he argues, is the same procedure that underlies many scientific models, which allow us to transpose our understanding of well-understood phenomena to other areas of inquiry. He concludes with the assertion that — far from being merely ornamental uses of language or rhetorical devices — metaphors are important methodological tools in both the construction and critique of legal theory.
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Rodwin, Marc A. "Strains in the Fiduciary Metaphor: Divided Physician Loyalties and Obligations in a Changing Health Care System." American Journal of Law & Medicine 21, no. 2-3 (1995): 241–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s009885880000633x.
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Owen Barfield, the British solicitor and literary scholar, reminds us that many legal concepts have their origin as metaphors and legal fictions. We often fail to see the nature of legal metaphors, Barfield argues, because over time they ossify and we read them literally rather than figuratively. Look closely at changes in law over time, Barfield advises us, to see how effectively metaphor works in law and language. Many legal categories and procedures we now use had their origin in using a metaphor that revealed a new way of looking at a problem or that helped solve a legal problem. Legal metaphors also help us to identify critical limits and strains in adapting to new facts and circumstances.George Annas has pointed out that our choice of metaphors for medicine can reframe our debates about health policy reform. And Analee and Thomas Beisecker remind us that patient-physician relations have been viewed through many metaphors. These include parent-child relations (paternalism); seller-purchaser transactions (consumerism); teacher-student learning (education); relations among partners or friends (partnership or friendship); or rational parties entering into negotiations or contracts (negotiation or rational contract).
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Jumanca, Romaniţa. "Types of Metaphors in The English Legal Discourse." Romanian Journal of English Studies 9, no. 1 (2012): 366–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/v10319-012-0032-9.
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Abstract The main purpose of my paper is that of analyzing English legal discourse and legal texts belonging to different genres within the same subject field, in this case legal English, from the point of view of the variety of metaphors it consists of. Metaphor represents one among many other elements of legal discourse.
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Jumanca, Romaniţa. "The Role of Personifying Metaphors in English and Romanian Legal Texts." Romanian Journal of English Studies 13, no. 1 (2016): 145–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rjes-2016-0018.
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Abstract This paper attempts to carry out an analysis of metaphors in a corpus of legal documents, within the theoretical framework of the cognitive metaphor theory as conceived by Lakoff and Johnson (1980). There is a notable use of conceptual metaphors and framings in the law we live by which, undoubtedly, have a major impact on the way millions of people in the world act and react in their attempt of decoding legal messages. Since metaphors are basically cognitive constructs, their meaning can be grasped only through a process of transfer of significance from a source domain to a target one, leading thus, to an interpretation of the legal discourse.
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Gedzevičienė, Dalia. "Lithuanian metaphorical legal terms." Taikomoji kalbotyra, no. 10 (May 7, 2018): 26–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/tk.2018.17442.
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The article analyses Lithuanian metaphorical legal terms, which account for about 8.8 per cent of all legal terms in Lithuanian. Based on formal linguistic attributes, four main groups of metaphorical terms were identified: (1) terms with a metaphorical headword, which subsumes two groups distinguished according to the part of speech: (a) noun metaphors, e.g. įstatymo spraga ‘a gap in the law’, teisės šaltinis ‘source of the law’; (b) verb metaphors, e.g. laikytis įstatymo ‘to keep to the law’, paremti įstatymo projektą ‘to support a bill’. In this article, differently from a fairly well-established tradition of Lithuanian terminology, verb-based phrases with a special meaning are also classified as terms; (2) terms with a metaphorical subordinate constituent, e.g. sunki bausmė ‘heavy punishment’, juodoji rinka ‘black market’; (3) metaphorical expressions, e.g. Delavero efektas ‘Delaware-effect’; (4) metaphorical compounds, e.g. pilnametystė ‘full age’.
 The paper has identified four trends of metaphoricity in Lithuanian legal terms (1) conceptualising legal issues as things or objects (67.04 per cent of all metaphorical terms), e.g. duoti parodymus ‘to give evidence’, įstatymo ribos ‘limits of law’, tuščias grasinimas ‘empty threat’; (2) conceptualising legal issues as humans or animals (18.59 per cent), e.g. sąžiningas procesas ‘fair trial’, diplomatinis imunitetas ‘diplomatic immunity’; (3) conceptualising legal issues as objects or humans (12.88 per cent), e.g. bylos sustabdymas ‘stay of proceedings’, aukštesnioji instancija ‘higher instance’; (4) conceptualising legal issues as some natural phenomena (1.63 per cent), e.g. teisės šaka ‘branch of law’. The conceptual metaphor analysis has shown that the target domain of legal metaphors mostly includes abstract concepts referring to legally regulated human activities and relations. The most productive source domain of these metaphors includes (1) objects of the material concrete world around us, mostly things, their attributes and functions, and human actions closely linked to them, and (2) living beings with their physical and mental characteristics.
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Meuwese, Anne, and Armando Menéndez Viso. "From Metaphors to Legal Solutions." Tilburg Law Review 24, no. 3 (2019): 10–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/tilr.173.
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Öresland, Stina, Sylvia Määttä, Astrid Norberg, and Kim Lützén. "Home-based nursing: An endless journey." Nursing Ethics 18, no. 3 (2011): 408–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0969733011398098.
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The aim of this study was to explore metaphors for discovering values and norms held by nurses in home-based nursing care. Ten interviews were analysed and interpreted in accordance with a metaphor analytical method. In the analysis, metaphoric linguistic expressions and two entailments emerged, grounded in the conceptual metaphor ‘home-based nursing care is an endless journey’, which were created in a cross-domain mapping between the two conceptual domains of home-based nursing care and travel. The metaphor exposed home-based nursing care as being in constant motion, thereby requiring nurses to adjust to circumstances that demand ethical maturity. The study focuses on the importance of developing further theories supporting nurses’ expressions of their experiences of everyday ethical issues.
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Shcharenskaya, Natalya M. "A Walk into the Depth of the Garden (about One Metaphor in the Play ‘Uncle Vanya’ By A. Chekhov)." Proceedings of Southern Federal University. Philology 2020, no. 4 (2020): 115–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2020-4-115-125.
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The metaphor «depth of the garden» introduced in the stage direction of the first act of «Uncle Vanya» is analyzed. It is proved that both entities of the genitive metaphor have a metaphoric meaning. The metaphoric meaning of the lexeme ‘garden’ is connected with units of legal semantics. The lexeme ‘depth’ is connected with water metaphors in the text. ‘The depth of the garden’ points to the degree of Serebryakov’s doomness in his search for God’s mercy, which is depicted through water images. The analysis of the metaphor with its complex relations, including phonetic ones, demonstrates Chekhov’s poetic style, that gives the word specific weight and lends the language a leading role in depicting the world. A fragment of the world – Serebryakov’s walk in the garden – looks like predestination of professor’s fate, made up of his missteps.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Legal metaphors"
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Soloshenko, Alena. "Emotions in legal fiction : conceptual metaphors and cross-domain mapping with ATLAS.ti." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016STRAC022/document.
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Cette thèse, dont l’objet est l’étude des émotions d’un point de vue linguistique, se positionne dans le cadre théorique de la linguistique cognitive. Son objectif principal est d’étudier le processus de lexicalisation et de conceptualisation des émotions, représentées par des mots-clés, dans le contexte littéraire de ce qu’on pourrait appeler « fiction juridique ». La première partie du travail examine les relations interdisciplinaires en jeu dans l’interconnexion entre le langage, la cognition et les émotions. La second partie est consacrée à l’étude lexicographique complexe des mots-clés exprimant des émotions dans le contexte littéraire de quatre romans mettant en scène la justice. Dans une troisième partie, sont mis au jour les « patrons » métaphoriques sous-jacents à la lexicalisation et à la conceptualisation en discours des différentes catégories d’émotions, ce qui permet d’illustrer la dépendance entre le lexique des émotions et ses conceptualisations les plus fortes. Enfin, cette thèse utilise une méthodologie dérivée du logiciel ATLAS.ti qui permet une approche qualitative de l’étude des émotions telles qu’elles sont exprimées en discours<br>This thesis is written within the theoretical framework of cognitive linguistics and focuses on the ways emotion keywords lexicalize and conceptualize in the language of legal fiction. The first part of the work provides an interdisciplinary discussion about the interconnection between language, cognition, and emotion. This is followed, in a second part, by the complex lexicographical study of five emotion keywords in legal fiction, a genre of texts which has remained overlooked by researchers in the field. The third part brings to light the metaphorical patterns of different types of emotion keywords in order to show how they lexicalize and conceptualize in language, and demonstrate the dependency between the types of emotion keywords and their strongest and weakest conceptualizations. In addition, this thesis offers an application of the software ATLAS.ti, which allows a qualitative approach to the study of emotions as expressed in language
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Higinbotham, Sarah. "The Violence of the Law: Aesthetics of Justice in Early Modern England." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/english_diss/113.
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In the twenty-first century, as in the sixteenth, a blindfolded woman holding a sword and scales personifies justice; her blindfold conveys impartiality, her scales evenhandedness, and her sword the authority to compel obedience. In pre-democratic early modern England, Justice’s iconography was often used to legitimate the pain that the state imposed on those who broke the common peace. Simultaneously, the creative and cultural narratives within which the penal code was embedded often complicated and contradicted the state’s legally violent precepts. The relationship between legal violence and justice is at the center of this project: Must the law be violent to control violence? Does the law’s violence promote justice or disrupt it? How do the formal mechanisms of law and social control operate within the complex world of art, sermons, and literature? This project maps the late Elizabethan and early Stuart engagement with those questions. I examine a continuum of responses to legal violence embedded in the judicial institutions of Parliament, the Star Chamber, and the Queen’s Bench as well as in poetry, plays, sermons, broadsides, iconography, utopian narratives, paintings, and engravings. Often drawing on the metaphoric force of Justice’s symbols, the early modern response to legal violence was not purely semantic but strongly aesthetic, defending, mediating, reflecting, and refracting the state’s formal mechanisms of law. Reading case law along with works by Thomas More, Elizabeth I, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Edward Coke, John Donne, George Herbert, Thomas Hobbes, John Milton, and Margaret Cavendish, I trace law as a cultural practice, expressed and understood aesthetically through both codified and creative means.
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Vos, Daniel Jon. "Some of the Other Works of the Torah: Boundaries and Inheritance as Legal Metaphors in the Hebrew Bible and Hellenistic Jewish Literature." Thesis, Boston College, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:108730.
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Thesis advisor: David S. Vanderhooft<br>In this dissertation, I explore the metaphorical value of law in the Hebrew Bible and Hellenistic Jewish literature. While the study of biblical law and Hellenistic Jewish halakah is well established, less attention has been paid to the intentional use of legal diction to create legal metaphors—metaphors that draw upon legal language for the sake of generating new ethical and theological insights. My argument is based upon Roger White’s theory of metaphor which states that a metaphor juxtaposes two otherwise unrelated vocabularies in order to produce new meaning. Thus, I draw upon comparative study of ancient Near Eastern law as a means of understanding the register of biblical Hebrew legal diction concerning land tenure and inheritance. With the legal background established, I investigate three sets of metaphors, one drawn from the prohibition against violating established property boundaries and two drawn from the legal domain of inheritance: the inheritance of wisdom and the inheritance of glory. These legal metaphors demonstrate the profitability of attending to legal diction. The boundary metaphor demonstrates that when attempting to describe the good or virtuous life, law served not only to provide a description of obligations, it also shaped the way in which early Jewish communities understood reality itself. The inheritance of wisdom metaphors demonstrate that sophisticated comparisons could be drawn between legal concepts and scribal learning, particularly when wisdom was thought of as a document. The inheritance of glory metaphors demonstrate the way in which semantic shifting impacts the meaning of a metaphor<br>Thesis (PhD) — Boston College, 2020<br>Submitted to: Boston College. Graduate School of Arts and Sciences<br>Discipline: Theology
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Norell, Rebecca. ""... men allra viktigast är det att vara metaforisk." : En analys av metaforer i rättstillämpningen." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Avdelningen för retorik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-326112.
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Spruch-Feiner, Aliza Jo. "Metaphorically Framed Stereotypes, Victim Race, and Attitudes Toward Police: Factors Influencing Juror Cognition and Decision-Making in Police Force Cases." Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1495641653277591.
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Madavaraj, Samuel. "Legal metaphor in Job 31:35-37." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN), 1993. http://www.tren.com.
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Kucheruk, Liliya. "Modern English Legal Terminology : linguistic and cognitive aspects." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013BOR30016/document.
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La présente étude intitulée «Terminologie juridique moderne de la langue anglaise: aspects linguistiques et cognitifs » aborde le langage juridique contemporain dans le cadre de la linguistique cognitive. Les objectifs de l'étude sont d'étudier les particularités de la terminologie juridique et de proposer des principes de systématisation, en se référant à la théorie cognitive de la métaphore. Il s’agit principalement : 1) de déterminer les concepts de base utilisés métaphoriquement dans la langue juridique ; 2) d'établir les correspondances principales entre domaines et les corrélations entre des éléments particuliers dans des domaines spécifiques. Pour répondre à cette question, un corpus d’anglais juridique a été constitué et soumis à une étude quantitative. Les expressions métaphoriques liées à la terminologie juridique ont été retirés et classés selon leur sens métaphorique. Il est ainsi apparu que les métaphores conceptuelles de la GUERRE, de la MEDECINE, du SPORT et de la CONSTRUCTION étaient les plus nombreuses et prégnantes en anglais juridique. Les projections et correspondances entre ces domaines sources et le domaine cible de la LOI ont été établies.Cette étude empirique repose sur 156 textes juridiques qui ont été rassemblés au sein d’un même corpus (COLE – Corpus of Legal English). Les sources renvoient à différentes catégories thématiques. Le corpus a été utilisé pour établir la réalité de certains phénomènes et interpréter les résultats quantitatifs dans le cadre de la théorie de la métaphore conceptuelle<br>The present doctoral dissertation entitled “Modern English Legal Terminology: linguistic and cognitive aspects” investigates the contemporary legal idiom, from a cognitive linguistics perspective. The aim of this study is to map out the peculiarities of English legal terminology and develop principles of systematization, within the framework of conceptual metaphor theory. This means 1) determining the basic concepts used metaphorically in English legal language, and 2) establishing the main cross-domain mappings and correlations between separate items within concrete domains.The Corpus of Legal English (COLE) was set up and a quantitative analysis performed, in which metaphorical expressions related to legal terminology were searched for and classified on the basis of meanings, conceptual domains and mappings. Thus, the conceptual metaphors of WAR, MEDICINE, SPORT and CONSTRUCTION were found to be the most numerous and valuable in Legal English. The main cross-domain mappings between these source domains and the target domain of LAW were established.In order to carry out this data-driven study, 156 legal texts were selected and compiled into the Corpus of Legal English (COLE). The source-texts represent various thematic categories. The COLE was systematically used to interpret frequency counts from the point of view of conceptual metaphor theory<br>Дисертаційне дослідження на тему «Сучасна англійська юридична термінологія: лінгвокогнитивний аспект» досліджує сучасну мову права з точки зору когнітивної лінгвістики. Головною метою дослідження було дослідження особливостей англійської юридичної термінології та принципів її систематизації з точки зору когнітивної теорії і власне теорії концептуальної метафори. В ході написання роботи були поставлені наступні цілі: 1) визначити головні концепти які використовуються у якості метафор в англійській мові права; 2) встановити головні концептуальні зв’язки між окремими елементами доменів.З метою вирішення цих питань і задач був проведений кількісний аналіз корпусу юридичної англійської мови. В ході цього аналізу біли виділені та класифіковані метафоричні вирази які пов’язані з юридичною термінологією згідно їх метафоричного значення. В результаті аналізу було виявлено що концептуальні метафори WAR, MEDICINE, SPORT та CONSTRUCTION займають домінуюче положення в мові права. Також були встановлені основні концептуальні зв’язки між сферою-джерелом та сферою-ціллю.В даному дослідженні було використано спеціально створений корпус, який включає в себе 156 правових текстів різноманітної сюжетної направленості, для проведення кількісного аналізу з точки зору концептуальної метафори
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Chiu, Sheng-hsiu, and 邱盛秀. "FIGHT Metaphors in Legal Discourse: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach." Thesis, 2012. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m545m2.
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博士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>語言學研究所<br>100<br>This dissertation investigates the role of FIGHT metaphors in the construction of the notion of litigation. In doing so, this research not only identifies the influence of a new criminal procedural system on language use but demonstrates the relationship among concepts, ideologies, and linguistic configurations in legal discourse. It further elucidates both the positive and negative cognitive reframing effects of FIGHT metaphors on the conceptualization of litigation.
In 2003 the Republic of China (Taiwan) passed an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure, which moves its original criminal proceedings away from the Japanese-German justice model (inquisitorial system) to the American Criminal Justice system (adversarial system). The newly enacted law makes the litigation proceedings more adversarial in nature and tones up the warring and antagonistic atmosphere around the courtrooms. Therefore, within the theoretical and methodological framework based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), Frame Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), and Corpus Linguistics, this study examines FIGHT metaphors employed in Taiwan legal statutes and judgments and probes into the conceptual and cognitive processes underlying these FIGHT metaphors.
The analysis of this study is two-layered and incorporates the Social Actors Approach within the paradigm of Critical Discourse Analysis into the Conceptual Metaphor Theory. First, in identifying the conceptual metaphor LITIGATION IS A FIGHT and examining the interplay between language and ideology, we demonstrate that there was a clear shift in the type of discourse before and after the 2003 amendment, and reveal how ‘fight’ metaphorical lexical uses reflect litigant ideologies and further shape legal reality. The proliferation of FIGHT metaphors appearing in judiciary
judgments after enacting the revised law suggests that the concept of FIGHT to individuals engaged in litigation may have been mapped unconsciously to their thoughts and may have the potential to affect subsequent more contentious discursive behaviors in the courtroom.
Second, when applying CDA to approach the social roles of individuals engaged in litigation, procedural rights of the participants, and the distribution of power relations among the partakers, we demonstrate that FIGHT metaphors, under the same storyline of adversarial system, entail an alternative cognitive function characterizing by pursuing trial fairness and civil justice, and thus recast the concept of fight in litigation as an action to secure the public’s interests and to value the human rights. FIGHT metaphors in litigation symbolize the protection of human rights and the realization of public interests, and on the long term they guarantee the development of democracy, since all human beings are born equal and must have the same chance to display their personality within the framework of the law. As such, FIGHT metaphors are endowed a new meaning, giving promise to both victims and the accused relief and justice. This public interest-centered perspective therefore urges us to view FIGHT metaphors as a ‘must’–an indispensable device to practice equity and justice. We hence argue that FIGHT metaphors are positive as a reframing device that people rely on to conceptualize the litigation.
However, from the other cognitive perspective, FIGHT metaphors in litigation have a profoundly negative effect on individual human spirits since under the adversarial system there is an assumption that opposition is the path to truth. As such, we propose that we have to give up either-or thinking and reframe polarizing choices to find other ways to solution. We further suggest that the legal profession and any engaged individuals take a more reflective approach to their linguistic behaviors, whether oral or written, as well as to reconsider how FIGHT metaphors affect the legal culture and, by extension, the lives of individuals as part of society.
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Sabourin, Charlotte. "L’analogie juridique dans la Critique de la raison pure." Thèse, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/1866/11513.
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La Critique de la raison pure est traversée de part en part par une analogie juridique dont l’étude peut enrichir la compréhension de l’œuvre. Il est ainsi question, dès la préface, d’une raison qui se juge elle-même devant son propre tribunal, ce qui constituera le point de départ de notre analyse. Or, ce tribunal très particulier doit se fonder sur une connaissance de soi approfondie de la raison. Cette entreprise est de fait réalisée au fil des développements de la Critique. Le rôle bien particulier joué à cet égard par les trois déductions présentes dans l’œuvre sera dûment examiné. On verra par ailleurs que la déduction doit elle-même être considérée plutôt comme procédure d’inspiration juridique que comme inférence, tout en conservant pourtant un statut de preuve philosophique. Les nombreuses allusions juridiques effectuées par Kant au fil de l’œuvre seront ainsi mises à profit dans le cadre de cette interprétation.<br>A legal analogy runs through the Critique of Pure Reason, and studying it can shed light on the work. The metaphor of the “tribunal of reason”, first introduced in the Preface, will thus be the starting-point for our analysis. Due to its very nature, this tribunal must be based upon reason’s in-depth self-knowledge – a task to be accomplished over the course of the Critique. The special part played in this regard by the book’s three deductions will be thoroughly examined. In addition, we will see that a deduction itself has more to do with a legally inspired procedure than with an inference, while it nevertheless remains a legitimate philosophical proof. Kant’s frequent legal allusions throughout the text will therefore constitute the basis for our interpretation.
Books on the topic "Legal metaphors"
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Silverman, Alexander E. Mind, machine, and metaphor: An essay on artificial intelligence and legal reasoning. Westview Press, 1993.
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Minda, Gary. Boycott in America: How imagination and ideology shape the legal mind. Southern Illinois University Press, 1999.
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Nair, Aruna. Value and Other Metaphors. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198813408.003.0002.
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This chapter examines the extent to which the ‘value’ model of tracing, currently dominant in the textbooks and the case law, can make sense the peculiarities of tracing identified in the previous chapter. It argues that this value account is best understood as the latest in a long series of useful metaphors that describe why substitutions matter. It shows how traditional descriptions of the claimant searching for his thing, and identifying it despite changes in its form, have been replaced by the more helpful metaphor of the claimant searching for his value and identifying it despite changes in its location. It argues that neither explanation of tracing makes sense if taken literally, but that both are instructive if taken seriously as metaphors; both point to the law's aim of protecting the claimant from the impact of acts by the defendant that inevitably, though wrongfully, alter the claimant's pre-existing legal position.
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Larsson, Stefan. Conceptions in the Code: How Metaphors Explain Legal Challenges in Digital Times. Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2017.
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Fisk, Catherine L. &: Law _ Society in Historical Legal Research. Edited by Markus D. Dubber and Christopher Tomlins. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198794356.013.26.
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This chapter begins with a brief survey of different interdisciplinary approaches to the historical study of law. It then explores the growth of both halves of the law & society dyad. It explains how that growth put pressure on the conjunctive metaphor that has long been used to describe the relationship between law and that which stands outside law, whether it be society, economy, polity, or something else. It suggests that the nature of law & society approaches to history has a great deal to do with what practitioners of the historical study of law conceptualize as being required by the ampersand, or by whatever other metaphor one might put in its place.
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Halliday, Paul. Birthrights and the Due Course of Law. Edited by Lorna Hutson. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199660889.013.37.
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At the turn of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the concept of law as the Englishman’s ‘birthright’ replaced older metaphors of ‘inheritance’. Arising in part from the story of Esau and Jacob, the term ‘birthright’ carried a specific theological charge. It enabled Englishmen to claim a spiritual right to specific procedures that defined law’s ‘due course’. In the 1640s and 1650s, these claims developed into calls for the widening of law’s due course. Though they failed to transform legal process at the time, the language of their claims contributed to durable vernacular demands that law should pursue the righteous ends they demanded of it.
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Burrow, Colin. Imitating Authors. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198838081.001.0001.
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Imitating Authors analyses the theory and practice of imitatio (the imitation of one author by another) from early Greek texts right up to recent fictions about clones and artificial humans. At its centre lie the imitating authors of the English Renaissance, including Ben Jonson and the most imitated imitator of them all, John Milton. Imitating Authors argues that imitation is not simply a matter of borrowing words, or of alluding to an earlier author. Imitators learn practices from earlier writers. They imitate the structures and forms of earlier writing in ways that enable them to create a new style which itself could be imitated. That makes imitation an engine of literary change. Imitating Authors also shows how the metaphors used by theorists to explain this complex practice fed into works which were themselves imitations, how those metaphors changed, and how they have come to influence present-day anxieties about imitation human beings and artificial forms of intelligence. It explores relationships between imitation and authorial style, its fraught connections with plagiarism, and how emerging ideas of genius and intellectual property changed how imitation was practised. Imitating Authors includes detailed discussion of authors who imitated (notably Virgil, Lucretius, Petrarch, Cervantes, Ben Jonson, Milton, Pope, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley, and Kazuo Ishiguro) and of the theory of imitating authors in Plato, Cicero, Quintilian, Longinus, Castiglione, the Ciceronian controversies of the sixteenth century, in legal and philosophical discourses of the Enlightenment, and in recent discussions about computer-generated poems.
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Davis, Donald R. An Indian Philosophy of Law. Edited by Jonardon Ganeri. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314621.013.9.
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Composed in the twelfth century ce, the Epitome of the Law (Mitākṣarā) by Vijñāneśvara is a celebrated and influential compendium of Indian law and jurisprudence. In form a commentary on the versified Laws of Yājñavalkya, it presents sophisticated and multifaceted discussions of all the major topics dealing with Hindu religious and legal duties collectively called dharma. This chapter examines Vijñāneśvara’s approach to basic problems of legal philosophy such as the sources and types of law, legal interpretation and reasoning, legal and moral obligation, the role of the state, and legal pluralism. It concludes by considering the driving metaphor that underlies Vijñāneśvara’s legal philosophy: law is a ritual, both the act and the obligation.
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Lewis, David M. The Riddle of Freedom. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198769941.003.0003.
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This chapter looks at the concept of freedom and its articulation in ancient Greek texts. It shows that in the Homeric period, the terminology of slavery and freedom was used only for personal status. In the centuries that followed, these terms were appropriated and applied metaphorically to a variety of asymmetrical power relationships. However, Greeks were able to maintain clear distinctions between slavery as a legal concept and slavery as a metaphor. The chapter concludes with critiques of the methods of M. I. Finley and R. Zelnick-Abramovitz, who do not make clear distinctions between law and metaphor when analysing this terminology, and whose methods have led to convoluted analyses of aspects of Greek slavery.
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Peters, Julie Stone. Law as Performance. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190456368.003.0012.
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This chapter starts from the view that legal performance matters to law: its outcomes, doctrines, and history. Here, rather than defending that view (a task undertaken elsewhere), it analyzes the methodological issues that arise from it. Distinguishing performances—expressive, embodied legal events, and practices—from both literary and legal texts (the traditional objects of law and literature), it assesses the vexed words “performance” and “performativity” as analytic tools, set against the rich historical lexicon. It then distinguishes “law in performance” and “law of performance” from “law as performance,” arguing that analysis of more familiar interpretive objects (aesthetic performances, legal texts) cannot substitute for sustained attention to legal events and practices. Finally, it briefly outlines some paradigms for understanding legal performance: legal conjuration, enactment, or mimesis; legal surrogation (metaphoric, metonymic, or indexical); and legal theatricality-antitheatricality.
Book chapters on the topic "Legal metaphors"
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Cardwell, Paul James, and Tamara Hervey. "Bringing the Technical into the Socio-legal: The Metaphors of Law and Legal Scholarship of a Twenty-First Century European Union." In Exploring the ‘Legal’ in Socio-Legal Studies. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-34437-3_8.
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Chen, Ya-chen. "Cinematic Metaphors of Autumn Cicadas and Chilling Cicadas: The Way Out of Legal Bottlenecks in Sex Appeal." In (En)Gendering Taiwan. Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63219-3_5.
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Kahn, Jeffrey. "The Law Is a Causeway: Metaphor and the Rule of Law in Russia." In The Legal Doctrines of the Rule of Law and the Legal State (Rechtsstaat). Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05585-5_15.
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"Metaphors." In Artefacts of Legal Inquiry. Hart Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781509995585.ch-006.
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ROTTLEUTHNER, HUBERT. "Biological Metaphors in Legal Thought." In Autopoietic Law - A New Approach to Law and Society, edited by Gunther Teubner. DE GRUYTER, 1987. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9783110876451.97.
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"Twentieth-Century Legal Metaphors for Self and Society." In Looking Back at Law's Century. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/9781501718427-008.
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Fludernik, Monika. "Poeta in Vinculis II." In Metaphors of Confinement. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198840909.003.0003.
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Continuing the contrast between personal accounts of imprisonment and fictional elaborations of carceralities, Chapter 3 concentrates on the twentieth century and on (post)colonial contexts. The three authors discussed at length are Brendan Behan, the Irish dramatist; Ken Saro-Wiwa, the Nigerian author and ecological activist; and Breyten Breytenbach, the South African poet. Whereas Behan’s and Saro-Wiwa’s autobiographical texts, at least on the surface, appear to be quite reliable, i.e. factual, accounts of their imprisonment, their literary work, just like Breytenbach’s, is highly allusive, ironic, and allegorical; they model the carceral experience through distortive lenses of comedy, farce, satire, or parable. The chapter also emphasizes the use of the prison and legal criminalization as major political strategies of discrimination against (ethnic and other) minorities as well as political dissidents.
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"Chapter III: The Legal Metaphor and Other Metaphors in Micah 1:2–16." In "Who is like Yahweh?". Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.13109/9783666540479.72.
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Campos-Pardillos, Miguel Ángel. "Fighting for Integrity against a Corrupting Disease: The Legal Metaphors of Sports Fraud." In Corpus Approaches to the Language of Sports. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350088238.ch-008.
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Thomas, Tracy A. "“The Pivot of the Marriage Relation”." In Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Feminist Foundations of Family Law. NYU Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814783047.003.0003.
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This chapter delves into Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s critique of marriage and its resulting gender inequality. Contradicting Victorian notions of sentimental marriage, Stanton exposed the way legal and religious marriage, with its headship of man, victimized and subordinated women. She compared women’s treatment in monogamous marriage to polygamy, radically opposing the hypocrisy of the anti-Mormon polygamist movement. Using the metaphors of abolition, Stanton depicted marriage as slavery, decried the duty to obey and take a husband’s name, and sought women’s freedom. She opposed common law marriage and breach-of-promise actions, and supported higher age requirements for marriage. The chapter concludes with Stanton’s reconstructive solutions for marriage, consisting of “free love," legal construct as contract, and economic partnership of full equal rights and autonomy for each partner.