Contact establishing tactics in Russian speaking, Kazakh speaking and English speaking trial discourse

Close attention to speech behavior in the sphere of professional communication presupposes noticeable interest in individual and social aspects of a speaker’s conduct in the field of legal activities. In the present article the authors treat contact establishing tactics as an inalienable part of emotional influence strategy in Russian, Kazakh and American trial discourse. It should be mentioned that the influence of ethnic and cultural factors on differences of speech behavior of professional participants of Russian, Kazakh and American trial discourses has not been studied thoroughly enough yet. The present research is characterized by a wish to identify the dependency of speech behavior on trial discourse professional participants (the choice of communicative tactics within basic communicative strategies) of their social roles, as well as on the peculiarities of ethnic mentality of the treated linguistic cultures’ representatives. While conducting the research the achievements of Linguistic Conflict Study, Social Linguistics, Interpretation Theory, Speech Acts Theory, as well as Jurisprudence, Communication Study and Cognition Science have been integrated...