THE CONCEPT OF ABUSE: LEGAL, ETHICAL AND LINGUISTIC ASPECTS OF RUSSIAN-LANGUAGE TEXT ANALYSIS
The subject of our study is an integrated approach to the understanding of the term “abuse” in forensic linguistic examination of text. The largest number of examinations is conducted under Article 5.61. of the Administrative Code called “Abuse”. The reason for this is the development of digital technologies and, consequently, an increase in the speed of disseminating information primarily on the Internet. This study considers three fundamental views on the concept of “abuse”: ethical, linguistic and legal. This kind of research is relevant both for philologists, involved in the examinations of the text, and for lawyers who have to deal with problematic texts. The purpose of this study is to compare three points of view on the text that potentially contains abuse and to prove that only a comprehensive approach allows specialists to properly examine and pass an objective verdict on any text. At present, researchers focus on legal and linguistic aspects of abuse. There are practically no studies that mention the ethical aspect of invective texts. However, we believe it to be very important because this point of view reflects the influence that texts with elements of insult exert on society.