Appendix B: Metaphors and Images for Justice in the Antigone
| Author | Roger S. Fisher |
| Pages | 287-298 |
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Metaphors
and
Images
for
Justice
in
the
Antigone
LEGAL
DISCOURSE
INCLUDES
all
aspects
of
language
(such
as
diction,
style,
and
grammar),
gender,
social
status
(marked
by
things
such
as
ac
cent,
dress,
and
nomenclature),
occasion,
and
place,
as
well
as
the
sym
bols
and
the
imagery
of
legal
expressions,
all
of
which
reveal
how
law
is
conceptualized
visually
or
metaphorically
in
a
culture.
1
Legal
theory
has
little
to
say
about
the
symbols
and
imagery
of
law,
even
though
legal
theory
is
intensely
interested
in
the
texts
of
the
law
expressed
in
words
using
legal
language/
But
symbols
and
imagery
are
not
just
transient
representations
of
ideas
about
law
and
justice;
they
reveal
how
a
society
thinks
about
law
at
a
level
that
is
deeper
than
statutory
interpretation
or
jurisprudential
analysis.
Visual
imagery
abounds
in
many
expressions
that
are
common
in
the
discourse
of
modern
Anglo-American
law
(such
as
“
black
letter
law,
”
“
colour
of
right,
”
“
high
court,
”
“
seamless
web,
”
and
“
chain
of
title
”
).
These
are
all
verbal
images
that
disclose,
on
a
pre-verbal
or
intuitive
level,
specific
ideas
about
the
law,
which
is
why
visual
sym
bols
and
verbal
metaphors
for
law,
like
the
language
of
law
itself,
differ
from
place
to
place
and
from
time
to
time.
Law
and
legal
culture
are
present
in
the
Antigone
through
visual
im
agery
and
symbolism
and
not
just
in
the
subject
matter
or
in
the
techni
cal
terminology
of
the
play.
This
is
evidence
of
Sophocles
’
s
intention
to
create
a
play
that
his
audience
would
recognize
as
one
that
is
about
legal
discourse
in
a
trial
setting.
The
symbolism
and
visual
imagery
associated
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