Abstract: This paper uses a Computer-Aided Text Analysis (CATA) and a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to investigate the language of persuasion in courtroom discourse. More specifically, the paper tries to explore the extent to which a computer-aided text analysis contributes to decoding the various persuasive strategies employed to control, defend or accuse within the framework of courtroom discourse. Two research questions are tackled in this paper: first, what are the strategies of persuasion employed in the selected data? Second, how can a computer-aided text analysis reveal these persuasive tools that influence the attitudes of recipients? By means of the adopted computer-assisted textual analysis, four CDA strategies are discussed in this study: questioning, repetition, emotive language, and justification. The paper reveals that language in courtroom discourse can be used to persuade or biased to manipulate. In both cases, a triadic relationship between language, law, and computer is emphasized.

Bader Nasser Aldosari and Ayman F. Khafaga, “The Language of Persuasion in Courtroom Discourse: A Computer-Aided Text Analysis” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(7), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110744

@article{Aldosari2020,
title = {The Language of Persuasion in Courtroom Discourse: A Computer-Aided Text Analysis},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110744},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110744},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {7},
author = {Bader Nasser Aldosari and Ayman F. Khafaga}
}