| Summary: | The purpose of this research is to explain how pragmatic and dialectical strategies
works in forensic discourse and to describe the communicative interaction between the
prosecution and the defense in order to determine how the prosecution and the defense
use these strategies to persuade the judge about the innocence or the culpability of the
accused. The corpus is based on the first statements provided by the prosecution and the
defense during an oral trial held in the Criminal Courts of Barcelona in 2010. To achieve
this objective, we have proceeded to identify the linguistic components and the dialecti-
cal-argumentative indicators that the parties use in their interventions, following a meth-
odology based on pragma-dialectic theory, ethnomethodology, argumentation and (dis)
courtesy. Among the results, the nominalization, the lexical and grammatical recurrence
and the personal deictic indicators and discursive operators stand out. These strategies
are joined by those that derive from the image projected by each part where courtesy or
discourtesy comes into play
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