Controversial text as an object of linguistic research

Abstract

This article reveals the specifics of the linguistic analysis of controversial mass media texts. Recently, more and more often the information covered in journalism becomes the subject of a legal dispute and turns out to be in demand in legal practice. The courts began to consider cases in which the subject of the dispute was the texts. Controversial texts are considered as a specialized genre of interdisciplinary philological research in the article. Linguistic analysis of a conflicting text implies its study as an integral speech product from the position of an ambiguous interpretation of the information presented by the journalist. The object of the research is the linear components of the disputable text: text fragments, statements, phrases, words. The article examines the contentious text as a source of speech conflicts from the perspective of linguistic and legal issues. The research of conflicting texts involves their comprehensive analysis using various techniques, which is reflected in this publication.