THE METAPHORICAL IMAGERY IN POLISH LEGAL LANGUAGE: THE POLISH CIVIL CODE
THE METAPHORICAL IMAGERY IN POLISH LEGAL LANGUAGE: THE POLISH CIVIL CODE

Summary/Abstract: The present paper comments on the use of metaphorical imagery in The Polish Civil CodeThe theoretical background for analysis is cognitive linguistics in the tradition of researcherssuch as George Lakoff, Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier. It is accepted that language as asystem is inherently metaphorical, and that metaphorical images are not just rhetoricaldevices which help make language more interesting and poetic, but rather constitutemechanisms of cognition, thanks to which human beings can make sense of the world andthen refer to it in an efficient way. Metaphoricity in legal context can be found at differentlevels and may serve various aims. Our main interest is in the basic, mostly frozen metaphorswhich are inevitable in the law

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