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Abstract
This article presents the goals and means of dispute, highlighting four types of disputes: discussion, polemic, eclecticism, and sophistry. Participation in the polemic awakens in interested interlocutors a readiness to express their position in the most vivid, convincing form, to find such words, expressions, such arguments that would most fully express their position. It forces participants to think, comprehend the facts, compare them, establish possible connections between them, and be able to convincingly defend their point of view and position. The value of a polemic lies in the fact that during it, the persuasiveness of the argument, the mastery of the audience, the mastery of the material, the ability to rebuild one's system of arguments and counterarguments during the polemic, the flexibility of thinking are tested, and speaking skills are honed. The most frequently used form of oral speech in legal practice is dialogic speech or legal dialogue. The subject of study in the practice of legal scholars can be various legal situations in which such types of legal dialogue as court debates, legal consultation, interrogation, parliamentary debates, etc. are presented.