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标题：Gore, Gibson, and Goldsmith: The Evolution of Internet Metaphors in Law and Commentary
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作者：Jonathan H. Blavin ; I. Glenn Cohen
期刊名称：Harvard Journal of Law and Technology
印刷版ISSN：0897-3393
出版年度：2003
卷号：16
期号：1-2
出版社：William S Hein
摘要：The use of metaphor in legal discourse is pervasive. The legal world has been described as a magical one in which “liens float, corporations reside, minds hold meetings, and promises run with the land.”2 Traditionally defined as “figure[s] of speech containing an implied comparison, in which a word or phrase ordinarily and primarily used of one thing is applied to another,”3 metaphors wield enormous power over thought and behavior.4 Some psychology and linguistic scholars have even asserted that all knowledge and understanding is metaphorical in nature