The article examines the classifications of the tasks of the forensic authorship expertise proposed by several prominent scholars, determines the place of forensic authorship diagnosis, reveals its essence and lists the subtasks. The insufficient study of signs allowing to determine the emotional state of the author at the time of writing a text is noted, while there is an extensive body of research in the field of determining the state of the author of an oral speech. A list of signs for the only type of emotional state, emotional tension, contained in the specialized literature in the field of forensic authorship expertise is given. An analysis of such signs is presented. The possibility of using special knowledge in the field of emotion studies as a new direction in linguistics for the needs of forensic authorship expertise is considered. The practical significance of continuing the research in this area for legal proceedings and its theoretical significance for forensic authorship expertise in general are noted.
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