Vitaly Kuznetsov’s scientific contributions

The article concentrates on a language specialist and their procedural status in the Russian legislation. The responsibilities of a language specialist are considered in accordance with the procedural legislation and stated as providing technical and scientific (advisory) assistance to a law enforcement officer. The specificity of such assistance is shown based on the nature of special knowledge. Special attention is paid to the issue of the procedural status of the expert's opinion, its difference from the expert's conclusion.

One of the key provisions of the concept of forensic expertology by A. I. Vinberg and N. T. Malakhovskaya is the provision on the so-called subject forensic sciences - subsystems of forensic expertology formed as a result of the transformation of data from fundamental (parent) sciences based on the needs of legal proceedings. The article considers forensic linguistics as a new forensic science, which appeared as a result of transformation of linguistics as a fundamental science. It is shown that forensic linguistics is a source of special linguistic knowledge applied in the form of forensic authorship examination, forensic examination of sound recordings, forensic linguistic examination and forensic examination of intellectual property objects. The article considers the essence of forensic linguistics as a forensic science, as well as its structure, regularities and functions.

Currently, there is a process of updating Russian criminal and administrative legislation on speech offenses, which is associated with the introduction of new legal norms establishing responsibility for the dissemination of fakes, information discrediting the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations, etc. A huge role in the investigation of these crimes is played by forensic examinations of a humanitarian profile, primarily complex psychological and linguistic examinations, the results of which, as practice shows, serve as one of the key evidence. Methodological approaches to the study of information materials developed at the Federal State Budgetary Institution of the Russian Federation under the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation related to the establishment of special (linguistic, psychological) signs of those linguistic and psychological phenomena that are aspects of the objective side of speech offenses allow us to respond promptly to the emergence of new expert tasks in connection with the actively ongoing process of updating Russian legislation.