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Abstract. The article analyzes the court speech of the modern Russian lawyer G. P. Padva in defense of V. Kaulin. The distinctive features of the lawyer’s oratorical style are characterized, the effective psychological-rhetorical techniques of persuasion and influence used by G. P. Padva are identified and described: an impellent argument, an argument to the person with the aim of causing sympathy, compassion, references to authority (to judicial precedent, to listeners, proverbs and sayings). Particular attention is paid to the use of tropes (in particular, epithets, metaphors) and speech figures (various types of repetitions, questions) as an integral part of logical reasoning. Different ways of combination and effective interaction of psychological-rhetorical and logical arguments in evidential protective speech are shown.

Key words and phrases: защитительная речь, психолого-риторические аргументы, логическая аргументация, ссылка на судебный прецедент, приемы диалогизации, судебный монолог, приемы адресации, protective speech, psychological-rhetorical arguments, logical reasoning, reference to judicial precedent, techniques of dialogization, judicial monologue, addressing techniques