Галяшина* FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN LEGAL PROCEEDINGS (ПРАВОВАЯ ЛИНГВИСТИКА В СУДОПРОИЗВОДСТВЕ) Review. <...> The article provides a detailed study of forensic application of linguistic examination of judicial documents, written speech and oral discourse materials involved as evidence in Russian legal proceedings. <...> It is stated that usage of forensic expert evidence in court has increased rapidly in the past fifteen years. <...> The article covers the key topics of the forensic linguistic field from legal language and interface between language and the law to the collection and testing of verbal evidence in the courtroom. <...> The author focuses on criminal and civil cases involving a variety of crimes and other delicts conducted via usage of language, such as fraud, bribery, threats, terrorism and extremism, ransom demands, slander, calumny, seditions, abuses and many others. <...> It is pointed that forensic linguistic expertise provides important evidence that can help to reveal ambiguity, disguise, language manipulations in cases when an impression of the targets’ guilt is intentionally created or a person has been provoked for crime actions or verbally forced to make false confession. <...> In summary, the article represents an attempt to provide a wide spectrum overview of concerns of forensic linguistics and its practical application in legal process by law enforcements. <...> Keywords: forensics, forensic linguistics, legal proceedings, language and the law, law enforcement, speech crime, verbal evidence. <...> DOI: 10.17803/1729-5920.2016.118.9.136-145 I. INTRODUCTION TO FORENSIC LINGUISTICS IN JURISPRUDENCE Forensic linguistic evidence was invoked to legal proceedings in Russia since the beginning of 2000 with the great amount of libel and humiliation of honor cases. <...> Forensic linguistics was defined as the scientific study of language applied to foren1 sic purposes and linguistic expertise was stated as usage of the special linguistic knowledge for crime investigations and for solving information disputes and corporative conflicts in civil proceedings1 ) . <...> Philologist were widely called to analyze texts and statements with defamation, tried to do with disputed confessions, hatred speech, abuse, See: Galyashina E. I. Preliminaries in Forensic Speech Science. <...> Садовая-Кудринская, д. 9 136 № 9 (118) сентябрь 2016 Galyashina E.I. Forensic linguistics in legal proceedings blackmails and obscenity in advertising, attempted to penetrate in many areas <...>