NDLI: New Models for Language Understanding and the Cognitive Approach to Legal Metaphors

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Morra, Lucia
Copyright Year	2010
Abstract	The essay deals with the mechanism of interpretation for legal metaphorical expressions. Firstly, it points out the perspective the cognitive approach induced about legal metaphors; then it suggests that this perspective gains in plausibility when a new bilateral model of language understanding is endorsed. A possible sketch of the meaning-making procedure for legal metaphors, compatible with this new model, is then proposed, and illustrated with some examples built on concepts belonging to the Italian Civil Code. The insights the bilateral model of understanding provides are compared with the practice followed by legal communities for dealing with the metaphorical expressions they coin and use.
Starting Page	387
Ending Page	405
Page Count	19
File Format	PDF
ISSN	09528059
Journal	International Journal for the Semiotics of Law - Revue internationale de Sémiotique juridique
Volume Number	23
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	15728722
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2010-05-20
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Legal metaphors Bilateral models of language understanding Open metaphor Closed metaphor Civil fruits Predial Servitude Legal Interpretation Logic Philosophy of Law Sociolinguistics Applied Linguistics Law Theory/Law Philosophy
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Law Linguistics and Language

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New Models for Language Understanding and the Cognitive Approach to Legal Metaphors