La polyphonie dans le discours juridique : marqueurs de référence

Polyphony in legal discourse: reference markers Since the law is polyphonic, one can a fortiori consider legal discourse as polyphonic. In this article, we propose to shed some light on this phenomenon. The questions formulated for this problem are the following: What is polyphony? How does the Court construct a clear and coherent discourse by orchestrating the “voices”, “opinions” or “points of view” of different actors participating in the trial? How do these voices manifest themselves in the text of the judgment? Which reference marks make it easier to identify these “voices”? The corpus proposed for our study comes from the case law of the official website of the French Court of Cassation.