Abstract
The urgency of authorship examination, coupled with the absence of uniform methods of its conduct, makes researchers look for new approaches. The influence of the style and genre of the document on a certain combination of identifying features suggests a need to analyze the genre-sensitive nature of the texts under study. Genre modeling is the most efficient method of its analysis. This article suggests a model of a speech genre aimed to create a set of identifying features and a procedure of authorship examination of official texts. The model is used by the author to examine texts of interrogation reports. From the point of view of interaction in the pair “author - addressee”, the interrogation report is characterized by a complex and multilayer nature typical of the genres involving co-authorship and retelling of other person’s words. In the external communication situation, the “author” of the interrogation report (the person who writes the interrogation report down) acts as a certain “translator” from the language of everyday communication into the language of legal procedural documentation. The inner communication situation is characterized by the inequality of the roles of the participators: the role of the informer (a person possessing certain information) and of the text creator (a person who interprets the information received). From the point of view of the interrogation report structure, it is possible to single out three main parts - introduction, description and statement. The descriptive part of the interrogation report is the most variable in terms of form and content; the introduction and the statement are insignificant for authorship attribution. The language of the interrogation report is characterized by precise formulation (unambiguous interpretation) and concrete expression. This fact determines its lexical character and errors (pleonasms and tautologies), syntactical specificity (prevalence of direct word order and specifying and explanatory constructions), and pragmatic features (violations of the maxims of quantity, manner and relation).
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