Forensic Linguistics In Legal Proceedings
Abstract
The article provides a detailed study of forensic application of linguistic examination of judicial documents, written speech and oral discourse materials involved as evidence in Russian legal proceedings. It is stated that usage of forensic expert evidence in court has increased rapidly in the past fifteen years. Lawyers, attorneys, police officers, judges can seek for linguistic evidence as remedy to solve the case. The article covers the key topics of the forensic linguistic field from legal language and interface between language and the law to the collection and testing of verbal evidence in the courtroom. The author focuses on criminal and civil cases involving a variety of crimes and other delicts conducted via usage of language, such as fraud, bribery, threats, terrorism and extremism, ransom demands, slander, calumny, seditions, abuses and many others. It is pointed that forensic linguistic expertise provides important evidence that can help to reveal ambiguity, disguise, language manipulations in cases when an impression of the targets' guilt is intentionally created or a person has been provoked for crime actions or verbally forced to make false confession. In summary, the article represents an attempt to provide a wide spectrum overview of concerns of forensic linguistics and its practical application in legal process by law enforcements.
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Galyashina E.I. Forensic Linguistics In Legal Proceedings. Lex Russica. 2016;(9):136-145. (In Russ.)
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