The Politeness Principles In The Lawyer's Utterance In Trials

With the rapid development and the further fulfillment of the reform and opening up of the society, the construction of the legal culture of China is in full swing, and the court system makes profound changes. Currently, the utterance used by the judge and the parties in court are no doubt important, but the utterance of lawyers in the trial also plays a great role.In the thesis, the writer discusses the characteristics and the law of dynamic changes of lawyers'utterance in applying the Politeness Principles in the trial. As the utterance of lawyers in the trial closely relates to the parties, and even it is concerned with the matter of life or death, it is necessary to look through the phenomenon,find the nature, study profoundly the pragmatic principles used by lawyers in their utterance to do good to the trial, understand their nature further and lay a good foundation for the success of the construction of legal culture of China. Otherwise, a great number of scholars in China and abroad have made much research in lawyers'utterance in the trial singly; but have not reached the function of the joint of the pragmatic principle with lawyers'utterance. Therefore, it is worth discussion and further research from that prospective.The thesis begins with the history of legal profession and legal language. Then it explains the six maxims of the Politeness Principles proposed by Leech, namely, Tact Maxim, Approbation Maxim, Modesty Maxim, Generosity Maxim, Agreement Maxim and Sympathy Maxim, analyzes the pragmatic approach realized by lawyers in their utterance in the trial through a lot of examples, explores reasons of the un-matching of information in the Chinese court by comparing the legal culture between the west world and the east world, and studies how the Chinese lawyers could apply the Politeness Principles to yield the maximum effect of their utterance to help solve the un-matching of information in the Chinese court. Finally, the thesis concludes that the Politeness Principle is very useful for the Chinese lawyer to make efficient speech in the court. Meanwhile, the system of Chinese court needs further reform, and that Chinese lawyers should make great effort to apply their abilities to yield the great effect of their utterance, and using appropriate means, serve the client and make their own contribution to improving the environment of the legal system of China. Undoubtedly, it is not an easy work, but an arduous and complex task the Chinese lawyers should take.