Agora of the virtual reality: forum as a new format of internet communication
In the language reality of today’s world more and more attention is paid to the investigation of “a living word of a living person” on the Internet as a new communication medium. Today, the Internet is moving from a technological to a social ﬁeld of structural paradigm, posing itself as an innovative platform for communication, the virtual Agora. To promote and assist the development of such a complicated system, a constant inﬂux of information is pivotal, as it serves as the basis for all internal processes of socialization and self-identiﬁcation of the individual on the Internet. In modern times the suppliers of information are presented by mass media sources. Targeting mass audience and being easily accessible, they oﬀer evolutionary new formats of interpersonal interaction in the sphere of checks and balances of the cyberspace. Forums of electronic periodicals exercise the functions of digital translators, reﬂecting a new cluster of psychophysiological properties and qualities of the language and posing new epistemological challenges for the linguistic community in the XXI century. Within the framework of this article an attempt has been undertaken to analyse the parameters of communication in digital forums, which illustrate the methods for presenting information and implementing communication scripts in the light of topical pragmatic trends. Additionally, the article identiﬁes and describes a three-part categorial model of key characteristics of the Internet communication at the forums of electronic periodicals, representing the following elements: glocality, intrapersonality and polemics.