Topical Issues of Expert Diagnostics of the Author’s Conceptual Characteristics

Abstract

Within the school of forensic expertology, in the context of modern challenges of digitalization, the current problems of forensic and expert diagnostics are considered to establish the conceptual characteristics of the author of a speech product posted on the Internet, which has become a criminal environment. Based on the analysis of a number of provisions of traditional methods of author’s research of written speech (determining gender, age, profession, level of education, level of speech culture, native language of the author of an anonymous text), their inapplicability is revealed in the expert diagnosis of a modern language personality, which manifests itself mainly in a virtual environment. The author substantiates the need to develop a modern methodology for determining the conceptual characteristics of an anonymous author of a speech product within the competence of a speech expert based on the analysis of the corpus of modern web communication texts.