“…Despite all these works, courtroom discourse has barely been analyzed from the perspective of agonality strategies and their types. Agonality as a principle of interaction has been studied by a number of researchers of political discourse (Anesa, 2009;Anesa, Kastberg, 2012;Eades, 2008;Felton, 2015;Kurzon, 2001;Rusakov & Rusakova, 2015;Saprykina, 2007;Sheigal & Deshevova, 2009;Sidorenko, 2015;Volkova & Panchenko, 2016;Wagner & Cheng, 2011). Only recently has it become a focus of researchers of legal discourse (Bogomazova, 2014;Krapivkina, 2017a;Palashevskaya, 2017;Tiersma & Curtis, 2008).…”