An Analysis of Neologisms in the Context of Carrying Out Linguistic Expert Examination of Materials Related to Discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation

The purpose of the study was to study the specifics of conducting expert linguistic studies of neologisms used in the commission of offenses under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, based on judicial practice over the past 5 years. This article examines the specifics of the appointment and production of judicial linguistic examinations in the investigation of administrative and criminal cases related to the discrediting of the activities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the execution of their powers by state bodies of the Russian Federation, taking into account the works of domestic authors (E.V. Gorelov, S.V. Davydov, G.S. Ivanenko, V.V. Konstantinova, E.A. Koltunova, I.V. Zharkov, etc.). The study of the practice of conducting forensic linguistic examinations in the investigation of offenses committed under Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation, 280.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, revealed a number of neologisms most often used by offenders. These neologisms are systematized into two conditional groups: the first includes lexemes formed through contamination; the second includes words formed semantically by giving a new semantic load to already existing concepts. It is noted that the inclusion of the presented neologisms in the special reference literature will improve the scientific and methodological support for forensic linguistic expertise assigned during the investigation of these administrative and criminal cases.