Discrediting the Military Action of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in the Zone of the SMO: on One Expert Case

It is oral and written speech products that tend to become the object of study of forensic experts who examine information materials. However, due to the increasing complexity of expert tasks, signs of other semiotic systems can be subjected to semantic research. The article represents an attempt to analyze the meanings expressed in the images of state awards. The peculiarity of the study is determined by the polymodality of these texts, their intertextuality (the need to involve the historical context in the analysis), as well as by the special speech function of the texts - their sarcastic focus. The negative meaning formed by the listed means is important in light of the legislation prohibiting public discrediting of the Armed Forces of Russia.