An Insight into Peculiarities of Legal English Metaphors
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https://doi.org/10.18485/analiff.2018.30.1.13Keywords:
Legal English, metaphor, conceptual, language, peculiarityAbstract
Legal English language is characterized by peculiar terminology, specific sentence structure, unusual style of writing, and metaphors. As this paper is aiming to show, comprehensible figurative expressions have long been part of legal diction, even though they have been underestimated and thus understudied in this field until recently. Our analysis will be based on Conceptual Metaphor Theory, which sees metaphor as a matter of thought, and not a matter of language or words. In the corpus consisted of different legal texts, we will identify linguistic metaphors and then postulate underlying conceptual metaphors motivating them, in order to classify these metaphors into different categories and discuss their interpretations and origins. This paper has an objective to make a contribution in this field by providing clarifications of metaphor usage in Legal English discourse, in order to make them easier to understand, and not that intimidating to learn and use.
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