A Study On The Lawyer’s Courtroom Speech

The main purpose of the lawyer’s courtroom speech is to persuade the final audience--the judge,to increase the credibility of his language in the judge’s mind,and to protect the legitimate rights and interests of his party.Therefore,in the trial process,in addition to having sufficient evidence,lawyers must use appropriate speech strategies to participate in court trials,so as to make their views more prominent and easier for listeners to accept.This article selects the topic "A Study on the Lawyer’s Courtroom Speech".The author understands the research status of legal language and lawyer’s courtroom speech at home and abroad by reading a large amount of literature,and conducts relevant literature reviews.Through research and study,it is found that although the domestic scholars’ research on judicial language has transitioned from static research to dynamic research,it is still not mature in terms of research depth,research angle,and research effectiveness.Especially,there are not many general discussions on the research object of this article--the lawyer’s courtroom speech.Research on the characteristics of the lawyer’s courtroom speech and what speech strategies are available,but they have not been explored in depth.It is for the above reasons that the author hopes to use the professional knowledge learned at the graduate level and combine other discipline knowledge to analyze the lawyer’s courtroom speech.Throughout the entire research process,the author has participated in on-site trials,watched the trial live broadcast on the trial live broadcast network,collected materials such as defense words,surrogates,and trial records,while consulting and collecting relevant literature,learning from others’ research methods and ideas,keeping combing and adjusting your own article framework.Summarizing the characteristics of the lawyer’s courtroom speech,analyzing their speech strategies,and finally editing each module according to the collected court trial materials and the summary of each stage,and finally completing this research.The thesis focuses on a systematic analysis of the lawyer’s speech characteristics and speech strategies during the trial,and analyzes the speech strategies after summarizing the lawyer’sspeech characteristics.The main part of the full text includes the characteristics and speech strategies of lawyer’s courtroom speech.The "characteristics of the lawyer’s courtroom speech" is a summary of the general characteristics of the court’s speech,combined with the three goals that the lawyer’s courtroom speech should achieve: the goal of goal,the goal of refutation,and the goal of persuasion.Specifically,it includes logic and coherence,opposition and refutation,image and contagion."The Law of the Lawyer’s Courtroom Speech" is an analysis based on Aristotle’s ETHOS and PATHOS theory,as well as Habermas’ s theory of dialogue.Among them,the content of "ETHOS and speech strategy" analyzes how to improve the lawyer’s credibility from the perspective of lawyers’ basic literacy and further enhance the persuasiveness of lawyers in the trial according to Aristotle’s ETHOS theory.The content of "PATHOS and speech strategy" is based on Aristotle’s PATHOS and combines the concept features of "pragmatic empathy",specifically,analyzing lawyer court speech strategy from the perspective of personal deixis,vagueness,mood system and emotional language.The content of "Dialogism and Speech Strategy" is based on the dialogue strategies of litigants in "Communicative Rationalization Dialogue Theory" put forward by Habermas,and referring to other theories,it focuses on the analysis of lawyers’ question-and-answer strategies during the trial.Including concise,straightforward key points,repeated questions,hidden presets and clever use of answering features to set questions.This article summarizes the characteristics and strategies of the lawyer’s courtroom speech,and also uses linguistics,psychology and other related professional theories to analyze them in depth.I hope that the practical guidance of lawyer’s courtroom speech can be helpful.