This paper looks at the use of metaphor and its effect on the interpretation of the ‘quality of law’ in Art. 8 cases of the European Court of Human Rights. It demonstrates the Court's reproduction of specific metaphorical frames ‐ a finding consistent with the use of metaphor in judgment experiments in cognitive linguistics. The Court employs metaphors conceptually coherent with those used in their cited precedent, in their representation of the successful pleadings within their judgments and insists (implicitly) on different metaphors in dissent. This paper argues that the use of congruent metaphors may be indicative of metaphor as a contributing factor in how judges reason. In the least, it is a significantly understudied phenomenon and this paper provides evidence for the salience of its approach for understanding judicial reasoning

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法律概念的组成部分：《欧洲人权公约》第 8 条的法律质量、评价性判断和隐喻框架

本文着眼于隐喻的使用及其对艺术中“法律质量”的解释的影响。欧洲人权法院的8个案例。它证明了法院对特定隐喻框架的再现——这一发现与隐喻在认知语言学判断实验中的使用一致。法院使用的隐喻在概念上与引用的先例中使用的隐喻一致，在他们的判决中代表成功的诉状，并（含蓄地）坚持异议中的不同隐喻。本文认为，一致隐喻的使用可能表明隐喻是判断推理的一个促成因素。至少，这是一个显着未充分研究的现象，本文为其理解司法推理的方法的显着性提供了证据