TY - JOUR JF - mdrsjrns JO - LRR VL - 8 IS - 5 PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/12/01 TI - Description and Analysis of Lawyer’s Linguistic and Meta Linguistic Procedures to Persuade the Judge in Public Courts of Iran: Criminal Court Discourse Analysis TT - توصیف و تحلیل شیوه‌های زبانی و فر زبانی وکلا جهت اقناع در دادگاه‌های علنی ایران: تحلیل گفتمان دادگاه کیفری (زبان‌شناسی حقوقی) N2 - The present paper benefit from an analytical descriptive research methodology conducted in field method with the purpose of examining linguistics competence and its pragmatic approaches application in forensic linguistics discourse in order to assess various persuasion techniques used by lawyers in penal courts of Iran to persuade judges. The data of the research gathered from20 open sessions of Shiraz city court rooms which contains 2112 sentences altogether which 654 sentences belonging to lawyers, 351 sentences to the judges, 987 to the accused and 120 sentences to the plaintiffs. In the present study .only the sentences used by the lawyers have been assessed in terms of verbal and non- verbal persuasion techniques analysis. Also the researcher has been trying to answer the question :"How actors use verbal(syntax .semantics and pragmatics) and non-verbal methods to achieve their goals and persuade each other .Findings of the study indicated that the lawyers employ verbal techniques such as use of legal acts and pragmatics approaches such as :exclusion ,inclusion ,nominalization , emphasis on remorse, denial of accused s offence and non-verbal methods in court room discourse in the realm of forensic linguistics. SP - 139 EP - 158 AU - Zaeri, A. AU - Aghagolzadeh, Ferdows AU - Ameri, H. AD - Professor of linguistics Department ,Tarbiat modares university ,Tehran ,Iran KW - Lawyer KW - Judge KW - Forensic discourse analysis KW - Pragmatics approaches KW - Persuasion KW - verbal techniques KW - Non-verbal techniques KW - Forensic linguistics UR - http://lrr.modares.ac.ir/article-14-1973-en.html ER -