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Conceptions, Categories, and Embodiment: Why Metaphors are of Fundamental Importance for Understanding Norms
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- Larsson, Stefan (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Rättssociologiska institutionen,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,Lunds universitets institut för internetstudier,Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change (WTS),Universitetets särskilda verksamheter,Department of Sociology of Law,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences,Lund University Internet Institute (LUii),Centre for Work, Technology and Social Change (WTS),University Specialised Centres
- Baier, Matthias (editor)
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- 2013
- 2013
- English.
- In: Social and Legal Norms: towards a socio-legal understanding of normativity. - 9781409453437 ; , s. 121-139
- Book chapter (peer-reviewed)
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- The propositions in this chapter are to a large extent drawn from the thesis Metaphors and norms – understanding copyright law in a digital society (Larsson 2011b), however with some important complements, not least concerning the implications of categorisation. The chapter is explorative in bringing findings from cognitive linguistics into the quite common socio-legal task of studying norms. Its aim is not to debunk, but to assemble. The promise of cognitive theory is here found in its ability to make explicit the unconscious and cognitive operations that structure our conceptions of reality. Emphasis is put on the importance of understanding how language, meaning and thought are connected. A main advantage of the metaphor-theoretical connection to general norm analysis lies in how language-based expressions and metaphors relate to the mind, how our thoughts are framed and thereby both controlled and enabled by how different conceptions are constructing metaphors. This goes for the most mundane and everyday events as well as law. This perspective indicates the significance of detailed studies of the surface structures, which have the potential to reveal underlying conceptions that may control a legal or social norm (Larsson, 2011b; Larsson and Hydén 2010). Cognitive linguistics is here argued to be of significance to norm studies. The important findings not only take into account the fact that metaphors play a much more fundamental role in thought and language than is traditionally acknowledged in theory of law. The findings of importance concern how categorisation is (really) done, the case of prototype effects (some members of a category are regarded as more “true” representatives of that category than other members of the same category), and the framing aspects of conceptions and metaphors. This is further emphasised by the process of embodiment of metaphors, and, hence, law. In simple terms, law is in need of a reification in order to be talked and thought about. This process is therefore of great interest for anyone concerned with understanding law’s place in society as a cognitive, lingual and cultural artefact. This chapter considers all of these contributions from cognitive linguistics to see what may benefit the study of norms in Sociology of Law.
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- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Juridik -- Juridik och samhälle (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Law -- Law and Society (hsv//eng)
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- Embodiment
- Conceptions
- Categorization
- Norms
- Conceptual metaphors
- Law
- cognitive theory
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