New Models for Language Understanding and the Cognitive Approach to Legal Metaphors |
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Authors: | Lucia Morra |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Turin, Italy |
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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. |
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