Contributors. Introduction -- Chapter 1. The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse / Michelle Aldridge and Kate Steel -- Chapter 2. On the universality of rights through their metaphors / Michele Mannoni -- Chapter 3. Metaphorical terms denoting intellectual disability in Lithuanian official documents : social implications / Dalia Gedzeviciene -- Chapter 4. Direct metaphor in selected TED talks on crime and criminal justice / Justina Urbonaite -- Chapter 5. Metaphor in legal translation : space as a source domain in English and Lithuanian / Inesa Seskauskiene -- Chapter 6. Metaphor as a foundation for judges' reasoning and narratives in sentencing remarks / Miguel Angel Campos-Pardillos -- Chapter 7 Metaphors of Kairos / Linda L. Berger -- Chapter 8. Ordre public : a research into the origin and evolution of a legal metaphor / Lucia Morra and Barbara Pasa -- Chapter 9. The role of metaphor in police first response call-outs in cases of suspected domestic abuse / Michelle Aldridge and Kate Steel -- Contributors.
Summary:
This book explores different aspects of metaphoricity in legal discourse, from court proceedings and written institutionalised texts to judges' argumentation and in spoken records, among others. It brings together linguists and law professionals from six different countries to investigate metaphor as a conceptual phenomenon accessible through language and, more specifically, through actual linguistic contexts of use.
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