Le réquisitoire comme stratégie de plaidoirie : l’exemple du discours liminaire de Blé Goudé et ses avocats à la Cour pénale internationale

Abstract

This article offers an analysis of Blé Goudé's speech during his trial at the International Criminal Court. The reflection dissects the tools used by the defence to try to persuade the audience by mobilizing the judicial genre with the entire mechanism of transfer of responsibility, even guilt on the accusation in order to hope for the release of Blé Goudé. It is based on proposals for studies in the fields of rhetoric, discourse analysis, pragmatics and law.

Keywords

• pleading speech
• judicial genre
• language acts
• indictment