Russian Judicial Discourse in the Light of the Modern Theory of Ar- gumentation

Russian Judicial Discourse in the Light of the Modern Theory of Ar-
gumentation

Yu. V. Shatin, I. V. Silantev

Institute of Philology SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation); Novosibirsk State Pedagogical University (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)

Keywords

judicial discourse, rhetoric, quasi-logical arguments, argumentative schemes

Abstract

The article discusses the main methods of argumentation in the
judicial discourse of two large Russian lawyers of the second half of the 19 th
century – A. F. Koni and F. N. Plevako for compliance with the argumentative
scheme developed by the Cambridge School (D. Walton and others). The
authors believe that, without any reliable theoretical support in connection with
the decline of traditional rhetoric, the best jurists intuitively discovered the outlines that later laid the foundation for Ch. Perelman’s rhetoric. First of all, it was
a question of quasi-logical arguments and arguments with which either reality is
constructed or the subjective position of the person involved in the rhetorical
process is affirmed.

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Bibliographic reference

Yu. V. Shatin, I. V. Silantev Russian Judicial Discourse in the Light of the Modern Theory of Ar-
gumentation // Критика и семиотика. 2020. № 2. Pp. 401–412. DOI: 10.25205/2307-1737-2020-2-401-412.