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The Count's Dilemma, Or, Harmony And Dissonance In Legal Language, Ian Gallacher
The Count's Dilemma, Or, Harmony And Dissonance In Legal Language, Ian Gallacher
Ian Gallacher
Lawyers have had a long, but ambivalent, relationship with metaphor. Viewed by some as a mere literary device, a trick of language that "adds little of substance to an argument," metaphor is seen by others as an essential component of legal language, a rhetorical device inseparable from thought. On one thing, though, all can agree: lawyers only have words to express their thoughts, so they have an obligation to use words, whether used metaphorically or not, as exactly as possible. This article offers a critique of the way lawyers meet this obligation when they use metaphors based in musical language. …