Abstract
The article deals with the question of the inexpediency of giving the status of forensic philological expertise to the status of psychological-philological expertise, taking into account the material under study and the areas of competence of a philologist and a psychologist. The author acquaints the audience with the content of discussions in the Russian scientific and expert community about the mandatory involvement of psychologists in the analysis of the semantic content of information materials and raises the question about the need to revise the position of forensic philological expertise in the Kazakh classification of forensic examinations.