Types of Metaphors in The English Legal Discourse

• Authors: Romaniţa Jumanca
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

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.

Keywords

EN

legal discourse; conceptual metaphor; texts

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 366-372

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Romaniţa Jumanca

• West University of Timişoara

References

• Kövecses, Z. 2002. Metaphor, A Practical Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lakoff, G. and Johnson, M. 1980. Metaphors We Live By. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
• Lakoff, G. Turner, M. 1989. More Than Cool Reason: A Field Guide to Poetic Metaphor. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
• Lan, L., MacGregor, Lucy. 2009. "Colour Metaphors in Business Discourse", in Bhatia, V.K, Cheng, W., Du- Babcock, B., Lung, J. (eds.), Language for Professional Communication: Research, Practice & Trening. Hong Kong: The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
• Watson-Dunham, Beth. 2009. Introduction to Law. Denmar Cengage Learning, New York. (http://faculty.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/meta_p2.htm) www.thesaurus.com

Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0032-9