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LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS 12.4:877-915, 2011 2011-0-012-004-000320-1 FIGHT Metaphors in Legal Discourse: What Is Unsaid in the Story?* Sheng-hsiu Chiu1,2 and Wen-yu Chiang1 National Taiwan University1 Huafan University2 Within the theoretical and methodological framework based on the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Critical Discourse Analysis, and corpus linguistics, this study examines FIGHT metaphors employed in Taiwan legal statutes and judgments