Laura Vegara Fabregat
List of John Benjamins publications for which Laura Vegara Fabregat plays a role.
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2015 Legal metaphors in translation: The Great Chain of Being Cognitive Linguistic Studies 2:2, pp. 330–348 | Article
There is wide literature on metaphor and legal language (e.g., Henly 1987; Twardzisz 2008, amongst many others). Certainly, metaphor is a part of legal language (Alcaraz and Hughes 2002: 43), but not just an ornamental part. Metaphors may play a very important role in legal texts, a cognitive role.… read more