This dataset consists in a corpus of court decisions issued by the Taiwanese courts. It provides data showing how metaphor is perceived and invoked in the courtroom. The primary research question that studies using this dataset ask is: How is metaphor perceived by the people appearing in the Taiwanese courtrooms? Decisions were retrieved online from the official website of the Taiwanese Ministry of Justice by inputting metaphor signals which signal the likely presence of metaphors in Taiwan Chinese, such as pìyù 譬喻, bǐyù 比喻, and yǐnyù 隱喻 (all meaning ‘metaphor, analogy, to draw an analogy’). Decisions were stored as text files (.txt) that can be processed through corpus software facilities that are commonly used by linguists. The corpus was developed under the Project of Excellence in Inclusive Humanities (2023-2027) of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature.
MTC: Metaphor in the Taiwanese Courtroom
Michele Mannoni
2026-01-01
Abstract
This dataset consists in a corpus of court decisions issued by the Taiwanese courts. It provides data showing how metaphor is perceived and invoked in the courtroom. The primary research question that studies using this dataset ask is: How is metaphor perceived by the people appearing in the Taiwanese courtrooms? Decisions were retrieved online from the official website of the Taiwanese Ministry of Justice by inputting metaphor signals which signal the likely presence of metaphors in Taiwan Chinese, such as pìyù 譬喻, bǐyù 比喻, and yǐnyù 隱喻 (all meaning ‘metaphor, analogy, to draw an analogy’). Decisions were stored as text files (.txt) that can be processed through corpus software facilities that are commonly used by linguists. The corpus was developed under the Project of Excellence in Inclusive Humanities (2023-2027) of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature.
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