THE STAGE CHARACTER OF COMMUNICATIVE TACTICS IN THE ENGLISH-LANGUAGE DISCOURSE OF THE JUDGE

Abstract

This article discusses some features of the English-language discourse of the judge, the consideration of which from the viewpoint of the system-activity approach allows to identify a number of its system components. These components are inextricably linked with the verbal influence of the judge on other subjects of law in the courtroom, and also reflect the activity-based nature of the speech interaction of all participants at each stage of the court trial. This approach to the study of the problem of communicative tactics in the English-language discourse of the judge contributes to characterizing their metacommunicative features, including the identification of the most stereotypical of them. The set of standard statements of a judge proposed by the authors, and which are created on the basis of the most repetitive communicative tactics, can serve for teachers of foreign languages as a linguistic and methodological basis for teaching the law students about judicial discourse in non-linguistic universities, the development of their gradual awareness of the compositional elements of the court session scenario, and the mastery of clichéd status-role statements in the dialogical English-language speech of a judge and other participants in the court proceedings.