LANGUAGE FEATURES IN THE LEGAL COMMUNICATION
This article describes the language features in the legal communication. The skills such as speech skills, psychosocial skills, psychological skills, use of the rules of speech etiquette, use of non-verbal means of communication, ability to interact, necessary to the specialists in this communication sphere are analyzed. In addition to these abilities, personality traits developed by special training, self-development and practice are studied. It includes understanding of human psychology, psychological processes of cognition (the volume of perception, attention, certain memory properties, which may consist in exceptional memorizing the names of persons, dates, and emotional reactions, special properties of thinking, exposed in the ability to analyze human behavior, imagination and intuition), emotional and volitional stability, the ability to communicate the choice of styles. The structure of the communicative act in the legal field is revealed and proved. Seven stages responsible for basic communication links that help build successful negotiations and achieve the goals of communication are described. According to the data obtained, linguistic peculiarities of legal communications have been established. These are the reasons for individual performances (prosecution and defense); the presence of a variety of purposes for each of the acts of communication; conflictual communication, implying opposition parties in the settlement of the dispute; formalization of communication, that is, the availability of documents regulating this sphere of communication; particular importance of emotional state at the beginning of communication, which forms the emotional tone for the whole duration of the negotiations.