ABSTRACT
This chapter is a study of the effect of genre on the choice of personal reference and the participant roles assigned to this reference. Indeed, the main findings of this study have shown that the social power the court setting gives to its different parties makes them use different personal pronouns to address each other. It has also shown that, in the genre of court hearings, different parties have different aims and accordingly use different processes and assign different participant roles to personal pronouns related to these processes in order to relay different versions of the same truth.
