The article focuses on the status characteristics of courtroom discourse participants, including institutional position of a person and its correlations with other positions in the courtroom communicative space, modality of communicative acts, and speech formula, which constitute the courtroom discourse. The social status of a person, being the fundamental concept in sociology (
Abstract. The article focuses on specific features of legal definitions as linguistic phenomena constructing the institutional reality, their main functions and types. Successful interaction in institutional environment is hardly possible without a system of communicative codes, shared by discourse participants. The legal language, being such a code, serves as an integrating basis for institutional interactions. An effective combination of competences requires common definitions of concepts. The article distinguishes constitutive function of legal definitions, constituting the conventional meanings of legal phenomena and situations, as well as their regulative function, which is expressed in the ability to serve as guides for carrying out, interpreting and argumentation of different actions in different types of legal communication. The article draws attention to semantic changes of commonly used vocabulary (intentional delimitation, extension and narrowing of lexical meanings), as a result of its terminologisation, and the corresponding types of definitions.The author analyzes the types of legal definitions, based on cognitive models: definitions of classification and transformation types, as well as illustrative enumerations, frames and scripts or procedural definitions. Linguistic research of legal definitions aims to find out the logic of meaning construction strategies of reality, reflected in institutional lexicon. The analysis is based on juridical documents of the USA, the UK and the Russian Federation.
Abstract-The article describes some characteristics of courtroom discourse participants, namely institutional status of a person and its correlations with other statuses in the courtroom communicative space, modality of communicative acts and speech formula, which belong to the courtroom discourse. The social status of a person, as the basic concept in sociology and sociolinguistics, was described by Weber, Parsons, Abrahamson, Bernstein, Harms. In this article, it has been analyzed from the point of view of pragmalinguistics as it is understood by Solan, Karasik, Eades, Wagner, Cheng. The pragmalinguistic approach to the study of the status of a person participating in court proceedings aims to reveal the situational characteristics of equality or inequality relations in courtroom. Status positions of courtroom discourse participants find reflections in certain participant types and communicative trajectories in communicative space, speech act types and their combinations, norms of verbal and non-verbal behavior and rules of communication, speech etiquette conventions, speech acts modality, communicative roles, reaction to role performance, interactional discrimination.
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