FORENSIC PSYCHOLINGUISTICS AND LINGUISTIC INFORMATION PROCESSING

Abstract

The article examines the role of psycholinguistics in author identification of a text as well as discussing information processing. The paper presents the conception of the science. The author also discusses peculiarities of the text attribution. In its applied aspect of psycholinguistics it is useful for many fields of psychology, pedagogical and medical psychology, political and legal psychology, abnormal psychology and neuropsychology. This science has popular usage in both the field of criminology and in legal practice. The article also analyzes the research problem of the identification by voice. Moreover there is another task of psycholinguistics concerning non-verbal factors for investigation processes. Furthermore the author considers linguistic methods of identification analyzing an anonymous text. The general method of psycholinguistics concerns text characteristics based on both formal studies (language, text, phonetic, stylistic, etc.) and informal ones (content, meaning, intentional, etc.) due to which there can be defined individual psychological features or their complete psychological portraits. Furthermore, information processing is also based on gender approach, which includes different ways of expressing emotions, thoughts or drawing conclusions by men and women. As a rule, male statements are shorter. Males generally use abstract nouns more often, and women are more specific. Men are more likely to use nouns (mostly specific) and adjectives, while women use more verbs.