Reliability of a reproductive statement-insult (on the example of interrogation protocols)

Statement of the problem. The problem of the exact presentation of the invective statement and the corresponding communicative situation arises in the investigation of criminal cases of insult. The article outlines the main theoretical approaches to the analysis of the reliability of the speech “traces” identified during the interrogation. In addition, the authors conduct a comparative linguistic analysis of the relayed invective statements recorded in the protocol of interrogation, proving the hypothesis of their isomorphism. Based on the generalization of interdisciplinary, linguistic-legal experience, a position is formulated on the relative reliability of knowledge about secondary invective statements. The purpose of the article is the terminological and functional clarification of the concept of “reliability of secondary invective statements in the protocol of interrogation” in line with the formation of a canonical idea of a secondary invective statement. The research methodology is formed by theoretical ideas on the reliability of knowledge obtained in relation to the object under study, the position of semantic and constructive syntax, as well as the theory of speech genres. As a research material, protocols of interrogations in criminal cases on insult in 2013-2022 are used. As a result of the study, a single structure of secondary invective statements (in formal, semantic, pragmatic aspects) was revealed, an algorithm for their analysis was proposed, and the need for a linguistic-legal approach to the problem of verifying the reliability of secondary invective statements in interrogation protocols was substantiated. The author’s contribution is seen in the expansion of linguistic ideas about the accuracy and reliability of the transmission of invective statements by the interrogated. The results of the study can be used as the basis for a methodological development on the conduct of a forensic linguistic examination of the interrogation protocol as a source of information about the situation of insult.