The Making Sense of Politics, Media, and Law. Rhetorical Performance as Invention, Creation, Production

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Notes

1 Owen Barfield, Poetic Diction, a Study in Meaning (Hanover, NH: Weslyan University Press, 1984 [1928]) at 63, ‘every modern language … is apparently nothing, from beginning to end, but an unconscionable tissue of dead, or petrified, metaphors.’

2 Cf., Kendall Walton, Mimesis as Make-Believe (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990).

3 James Boyd White, Heracles’ Bow (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985) at 35.

4 Cf., J. L. Austin, How To Do Things With Words (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975 [1962]).

5 Gustav Radbruch, Rechtsphilosophie (Stuttgart, Koehler, 1973 [1914]) at 94; Benjamin N. Cardozo, The Nature of the Judicial Process (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1949 [1921]) at 166.