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Forensic linguistics as a branch of applied linguistics has taken place in the analysis of court discourse in the world, and newly, in the Iranian court contexts. This discipline has helped the legal language to analyze discoursal elements among the court participants. This is a mixed-methods research through which qualitative and quantitative analyses have been followed. The research was to discover pragmatic aspects of court discourse. One of these aspects was the spoken style markers (McMenamin, 2004) used by judges and defendants in Iranian criminal courts. Data were analyzed through descriptive (i.e., frequency, means, and percentages) and inferential statistics (i.e., Chi-square, X2) to compare judges' and defendants' conversations. Analysis of the “spoken style” variable showed that defendants' and judges' spoken styles differed significantly. The judges use the “use of formal spoken style” discourse markers more than the defendants. In sum, results revealed that judges and defendants used each discourse marker differently to play a role in strengthening or weakening speakers' power. Implications of the study suggest several guidelines for training judges in pre-service and in-service courses that provide them with linguistic and discoursal knowledge of how to use language pragmatically and practically to smooth the court processes.

This study is conducted through a descriptive classification of interrogating defendants' spoken and written discourse in courts' conversations which has been designed based on ex post facto research. Research sample included 20 cases of criminal files gathered through available sampling method from the Archived Journals of Justice. McMenamin's (2002) Hierarchy Framework of Recognition Authenticity was used to examine stylistic and syntactic markers of defendants' spoken and written discourse. Stylistic and linguistic markers make a hierarchical model that is ranging from 1 to 9 levels. This model analyzed phonological, morphological, semantic, and syntactic clues that are unique among the defendants in the court files. The patterns concerned with that hierarchical model are resemblance, consistency, and population which are recruited to discover the criminals' spoken and written documents. The implications of this study showed that the use of this framework was successful in uncovering the criminals' identification for resemblance (50 percent), consistency (30 percent), and population (20 percent). Implications of the study suggest this framework may help the interrogators, judges, and attorneys to boost the efficacy of their profession.