THE METAPHORS OF LAW
THE METAPHORS OF LAW

Summary/Abstract: Legal language is designed to be a mono-referential and mono-semantic language by definition. Granting privilege to discourse clarity, utilising the metaphor in law can come across as an astonishing procedure. Keeping all of this in mind, the study of law frequently commandeers metaphorical constructs as legal metaphors, through the medium of evocative imagery, thus being able to bring forth and clarify an entire conceptual apparatus which would otherwise remain abstract. Within this paper, we have endeavoured to analyse several metaphors which have dominated pages upon pages throughout history: the metaphor of law, the metaphor of the pyramid, the metaphor of the judge creating the collective novel, the metaphor of the rhapsody, and the metaphor of the judge who is the voice of the law.

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