The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code
The present paper comments on the use of metaphorical imagery in The Polish Civil Code The theoretical background for analysis is cognitive linguistics in the tradition of researchers such as George Lakoff, Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier. It is accepted that language as a system is inherently metaph...
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| description | The present paper comments on the use of metaphorical imagery in The Polish Civil Code The theoretical background for analysis is cognitive linguistics in the tradition of researchers such as George Lakoff, Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier. It is accepted that language as a system is inherently metaphorical, and that metaphorical images are not just rhetorical devices which help make language more interesting and poetic, but rather constitute mechanisms of cognition, thanks to which human beings can make sense of the world and then refer to it in an efficient way. Metaphoricity in legal context can be found at different levels and may serve various aims. Our main interest is in the basic, mostly frozen metaphors which are inevitable in the law. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2a9df38b32a545f6ba500aab0d097f0b2025-01-10T16:08:20ZengLodz University PressResearch in Language1731-75332024-12-0122429832910.18778/1731-7533.22.4.0325164The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil CodeSylwia Wojtczak0https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6054-0963Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0708-2091University of Lodz, Faculty of LawUniversity of Lodz, Philological FacultyThe present paper comments on the use of metaphorical imagery in The Polish Civil Code The theoretical background for analysis is cognitive linguistics in the tradition of researchers such as George Lakoff, Mark Turner, Gilles Fauconnier. It is accepted that language as a system is inherently metaphorical, and that metaphorical images are not just rhetorical devices which help make language more interesting and poetic, but rather constitute mechanisms of cognition, thanks to which human beings can make sense of the world and then refer to it in an efficient way. Metaphoricity in legal context can be found at different levels and may serve various aims. Our main interest is in the basic, mostly frozen metaphors which are inevitable in the law.https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/24608metaphorlegal languagecognitive linguistics |
| spellingShingle | Sylwia Wojtczak Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code Research in Language metaphor legal language cognitive linguistics |
| title | The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code |
| title_full | The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code |
| title_fullStr | The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code |
| title_short | The Metaphorical Imagery in Polish Legal Language: The Polish Civil Code |
| title_sort | metaphorical imagery in polish legal language the polish civil code |
| topic | metaphor legal language cognitive linguistics |
| url | https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/research/article/view/24608 |
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