On the Issue of Expert Terms in Forensic Linguistics
https://doi.org/10.30764/1819-2785-2020-1-29-41
Abstract
The article addresses the problem of using a deliberative category of “expert terms” in forensic linguistics. The issue is related to the questions of the relations between the linguistic and legal terms standing for so-called speech offenses and the use of legal concepts when wording expert tasks and conclusions. Basing on the understanding of the concept “expert terms” of the general theory of forensic science and the provisions of the theory of expert terms of forensic psychology under which the expert terms hold the position between legal and basic sciences’ concepts, an attempt is made to contemplate theoretically the category of “expert terms” as applied to the forensic linguistics. The article also shows the algorithm for developing forensic linguistic terms depending on the wording of a legal provision on examples from expert practice.
About the Author
V. О. Kuznetsov
The Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation;
People’s Friendship University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Kuznetsov Vitaly Olegovich – Candidate of Philology, Head of the Laboratory of Forensics Linguistics of the Russian Federal Centre of Forensic Science of the Russian Ministry of Justice
Moscow 109028,
Moscow 117198
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