Forensic Linguistic Examination of Extremist and Terrorist Materials: Qualifications and Competence of Forensic Speech Expert

Abstract

The article deals with the issues of professional training and special competence of the forensic expert carrying out linguistic studies of extremist and terrorist materials, delineating analytical scientific activities in the field of philology and practical forensic work based on the methodology of forensic science (forensic theory). The realities of legal proceedings show that the conclusion of a linguistic expert is assessed today fairly meticulously both from the point of view of its content and from the point of view of the expert's competence, the correspondence of the field, level and scope of his education to qualifications and professional requirements for a forensic expert. In modern forensic speech studies, the most dynamically developing field of applied research is forensic linguistic examination, which is a type of forensic speech examination. The need for law enforcement in the use of special knowledge in linguistics is due to numerous information and documents disputes, conflicts involving texts, documents and other products of speech activity that arise in the process of communication in all spheres of social relations. However, the problems of correlation between specializations of philologists and speech experts, the delineation of their competences in the scientific study of the problems of employing the regularities established in the philological science, and the variety of linguistic methods used in forensic expert activities remain undeveloped to this day.