Le pathos comme Stratégie de plaidoirieL’exemple du discours liminaire de Blé Goudéet ses avocats à la Cour pénale internationale

Abstract

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