Present day English discourse of attorneys’ speeches in the courtroom: stylistic and translational aspects

Abstract

The aim of the study is a comprehensive study of such a multifactor systemic education as judicial discourse in sociolinguistic, pragmatic, functional-stylistic, linguistic and cognitive and translation aspects, aimed at describing the action of the linguistic-cognitive mechanism in judicial discourse and the formation of the language of judicial discourse as a special semiological system. Achieving this aim involves solving the following tasks: 1) to establish and describe the specifics of judicial discourse as a special type of institutional communication, 2) to explore the genre space of judicial discourse, 3) to consider the pragmatic features of the genre of judicial speech, as well as its thematic, compositional and stylistic parameters, 4) to analyze the specifics of the concepts of judicial discourse as a way of legal understanding of reality, 5) to identify and study possible ways of translation in judicial discourse, 6) to describe the translation mechanisms operating within the framework of judicial discourse.