Jerzy Wróblewski is one of the most prominent and influential legal theorists in Poland. His theory of legal interpretation containing a division into linguistic, systemic and functional dimension is highly regarded by Polish legal community. However, when formulating the theory Wróblewski was aware that his theory lacks some elements. In his work he points out that despite three dimensions the result of the interpretation is still unpredictable. For instance, interpreter’s personality might be additional factor influencing legal interpretation process. In this context, Wróblewski compares the lawmaker to a composer and a subject making legal interpretation to a musician performing a piece of music. Wróblewski emphasizes the importance of such factors. However, an interpreter should disregard additional factors in the process of legal interpretation. At the time, when Wróblewski formulated his theory, the cognitive science was not developed yet. Nowadays, Lakoff Johnson’s idea of conceptual metaphors is widely known and might be one of the missing elements Wróblewski had in mind. This paper will examine such possibility and its consequences. Firstly Wróblewski’s theory of legal interpretation will be presented. Next, I will move to a brief description of Lakoff-Johnson theory. Then, it will be discussed if such approach is possible in terms of Wróblewski’s theory. Finally, the necessary modification of legal interpretation theory will be analyzed. In this part, the key question is whether the metaphorical aspect is a new dimenson of legal interpretation.
The aim of the present paper is to analyse the conceptual metaphors in the language of medicine in the American television medical drama House M.D. The article deals with two problems: first, which of the instances of the metaphorical language of medicine, health, illness and treatment are applied by the doctors of the series, and secondly, to what extent those metaphors are commonly used in the language of medicine and in the general English.
The present article is a preliminary examination of the language of disease and illness in English and Polish. We present the basic syntactic structures used in both the languages to talk about „having a disease”, discuss the differences and similarities in the two languages, and also touch upon the different conceptualizations of disease these linguistic forms bring about. In general it seems that both in Polish and English the ways of talking about disease and illness are quite similar as they both represent the so-called Western approach to medicine.
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Artykuł poświęcony jest sposobom motywacji w nominacjach procesów mentalnych. W szczególności dotyczy zagadnienia metafory konceptualnej oraz zjawiska konkurowania różnych modeli konceptualizacji pojęć. Analiza prowadzona jest na materiale czasowników współczesnego języka białoruskiego i starobiałoruskiego. Punktem wyjścia jest założenie, iż nominacje procesów intelektualnych motywowane są przede wszystkim trzema znaczeniami: mieć, dawać, brać. W systemie nominacji działalności kognitywnej najbardziej rozpowszechnione jest trzecie z przedstawionych znaczeń. Artykuł zawiera ponadto zestawienie postulatów onomazjologii kognitywnej i kognitywnej onomazjologii diachronicznej. Omówione jest jednocześnie zjawisko konkurowania metafor konceptualnych w aspekcie synchronicznym i diachronicznym. Wnioski autorki: modele konceptualne powtarzają się na różnych etapach rozwoju tego samego języka. Są one powtarzane również w językach pokrewnych, ale rzadko zastępują inne modele.
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The article deals with motivation in the naming of mental processes. In particular, it is concerned with conceptual metaphor and the competition of various models of conceptualization. The data are Byelorussian and Old-Byelorussian verbs. The starting point is the assumption that the naming of intellectual processes is primarily motivated by three meanings: ‘have’, ‘give’ and ‘take’. The last of the three is the most widespread in the system of the nomination of cognitive activity. The article also contains a juxtaposition of the postulates of cognitive onomasiology and diachronic cognitive onomasiology. A discussion is offered, too, of the competition between conceptual metaphors in the synchronic and diachronic aspect. The following conclusions are drawn: conceptual models reappear at different levels of development of a language. They also appear in related languages but rarely replace other models.
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