Corpus experiment in forensic linguistics

Abstract

The report deals with current trends in cases concerning protection of honor, dignity and business reputation, which lead to the situations when courts use the category «abuse of law». Linguistic criteria are proposed that make it possible to identify linguistic signs of abuse of law in the text. One of the criteria is a corpus experiment. The proposed corpus experiment allows to compare the frequency of use of evaluation markers, opinions, assumptions, probabilities, etc. with the frequency of use of these forms in the representative corpus of the Russian language. The criterion of the corpus experiment is supplemented by the semantic criterion and the metatext criterion.