Linguistic Identification of the Author and Identity Falsification on the Web

Abstract

Research on modern virtual communication focuses on human communicative behaviour in social networks. For the purposes of successful biometric expertise, linguistic personology is chosen as the most reliable approach. As a complex autonomous interdisciplinary synergistic paradigm, and as a research compendium that uses a wide variety of approaches and methods of modern linguistics, linguistic personology is designed to study the variety of human speech behaviour manifested in the speech of a person. It is also used to identify "bright diagnostic spots" that characterize the verbal messages of any individual linguistic personality in social networks with the purpose of its precise identification. Personality identification, enhanced by linguistic personology methods, is presented as efficient methodology, since it creates conditions for reliability and trust in the process of information exchange, and is based on truthfulness and legitimacy. The compendium of sciences for analyzing speech behaviour and for describing the speech repertoire of the virtual personality is based, on the one hand, on the study of formal discursive characteristics based on style (style-based features), while, on the other, it relies on the study of informal content characteristics (content-based features).