Linguistics in Forensic Linguistic Expertise (Method and Truth)

The paper considers forensic linguistic expertise as a part of applied linguistics that supplies judicial practice with special knowledge -linguistic one. Forensic linguistic expertise is a specific genre of a document and at the same time a result of linguistic research, intended for implementation of linguistic knowledge into other spheres. In this case linguistic theory position might get weakened, as a balance between judicial and linguistic aspects of scientific research might be disturbed. Due to some ignorance to linguistic nature of an expertise activity, justification of methods and techniques of analysis might seem insufficient, unclear and misleading. The problem of research methods is of greater importance in humanitarian sciences, because verification of results, objectification of an intuition of the researcher concerning language matter, psychology of human being or social phenomena are insufficient in this field of scientific investigation

Applied linguistics · Archaeology · Forensic science · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · History · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Psychology