Emotional Impact on Court Speech: Russian and British Practice

The theme of final qualification work is "Emotional Impact on audience in Judicial Speech: syntactic aspect (Russian and British Practice)". The aim of the research is to analyze constructions, which help to provide emotional impact on the audience, and to identify their most distinctive verbal patterns. The tool for the analysis is the structural-semantic classification of the forms typical for the affective speech, developed by T. N. Sineokova. In the research the transcripts of court sessions of the Russian and British courts, the defence (lawyer) have been examined. Court speech is a prepared speech, excluding the element of passion, so often, the use of structures, characteristic of affective speech (repetition, continuity, inversion, ellipsis), is a technique by which it is possible not only to attract attention, but also to directly affect the emotions of the audience.