Abstract
The article deals with the study of the English-language legal discourse conducted on the material of modern slang, court speeches of lawyers and prosecutors. Legal discourse is treated as an actual social phenomenon that has become the subject of Philology study. The features of the legal discourse are studied in the cognitive-pragmatic aspect, in the context of semantic, lexical, syntactic features of their actualization in oral speech. The article states the idea that all the participants of the legal discourse tend to achieve persuasiveness and expressiveness of their speech, and the cognitive and pragmatic aspect of the discourse requires to choose such language tools that can have the desired effect. This idea proves the fact that not all the statements are generated in the law language. In some situations, it`s possible to achieve this goal with the help of additional means of language that operate outside the law language. For this reason, metonymic neologisms appear in legal discourse, adding to English-language slang, and neutral vocabulary moves to the sphere of legal discourse and legal terms.
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