Modern practice of linguistic expert examination of controversial media texts on protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation of legal entities and individuals, defamation and criminal insult

Abstract

The article summarizes the results of studies of controversial speech itemsfunctioning in the sphere of media communications; conceptualizesthe practice of linguistic examinationof delinquent media texts involved in the legal proceedings of cases of protection of honor, dignity, and business reputation, defamation and criminal insult; considers the key concepts and categories of linguistic text examination; describes the common structure of expert examination, i.e. typical questions posed to linguists dealing with cases of the abovementioned categories; addresses the modern techniques of linguisticexamination; describes the methods of extraction, processing and analysis ofcontroversial information in media texts of different types and genres in the interests of linguistic examination.