Discursive Strategies in Authorship Studies of Sexting

The article covers the description of expertise practice in the authorship study of sexting in order to solve identification problems. The existing research problems caused by the peculiarities of electronic communication are described. The study of orthographic and punctuation features of speech skills, as well as the study of syntactic structures do not provide reliable results of authorship. Therefore, the study of discursive strategies for conducting a dialogue is of great importance. The paper proposes a model for studying speech strategies and tactics of sexting, in particular, the tactics of self-presentation of the participant in the correspondence, the tactics of announcing the topic and persuasive tactics, ways of expressing key concepts of the dialogue and the assessments of the interlocutor. The listed features, according to the authors of the study, form a unique speech portrait of a linguistic personality, which has a forensically significant identification potential.