Law And Linguistics In The Aspect Of Worldview Internet Security
Elena I. Galyashina · The European Proceedings of Social & Behavioural Sciences · 2021
The article deals with the description of interrelationship between law and linguistics when language use becomes disputed subject matter in such internet communication crimes as solicitation, threatening, aggressive behavior, terrorist propaganda, distribution of extremist materials, etc. Wrongful acts committed in the Internet by speech or writing that infringe on information (worldview) security are the focus of this paper. The author surveys a number of crimes aimed at eroding traditional Russian spiritual and moral values by promoting permissiveness and violence, racial, national and religious intolerance that are perpetrated primary by means of language. Most of our data comes from Russian jurisdictions, court and forensic expert practice. It is demonstrated that internet online communication involves using language to perform certain types of illegal speech acts in specific circumstances. The essential property that determines any speech act that pose a threat to worldview security is the actor’s intent to compel internet users to accept the imposed views and ideals through propaganda techniques, hidden persuasion, speech manipulation and language violence. The author makes a conclusion that the concept of free speech or freedom of expression is not only a law topic but a linguistic one as well. The boundaries lie between illegal speech act and a protected one depends on forensic linguistic assessment integrating both law and linguistic knowledge. The specially developed forensic metalanguage is essentially needed to formulate in its terms the criteria of a wrongful internet speech discourse.