cyberspace

This article presents characteristics of linguistic personality in the process of construction of social reality in cyberspace. Special attention is paid to such phenomena as «textcentricity» and «discourse practice», shown how linguistic styles and genres which are created in the process of virtual communication, construct social reality of cyberspace.

Contemporary trends of globalization and progress in communication technologies make studies of social communication a very important topic. This article strives to shed some light onto specifics of social communication in the temporal aspect, and highlights tendencies in its development, common for all periods of human history. This article also amends definition of a new virtual medium – Cyberspace, which represents a new stage in evolution of social communication