Retoryka pytań w dyskursie sądowym
The rhetoric of questions in judicial discourse

Summary/Abstract: This study investigates the issue of lawyers’ rhetorical proficiency, which is revealed in a situation of examination of witnesses and defendants in a Polish model of lawsuit. At this stage of trial the hybridity of rhetoric can be observed and it discloses in a specific technique of posing questions that aim to persuade while they pretend to inform. The discussed method of examination is performed to elicit evidence in support of facts which will satisfy a required element of a party's claim or defense.

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