Reguły konwersacji na forum internetowym – tradycja a innowacja

Abstract

The subject discussed in the article is the conversation in the Internet forum, understood as free exchange among many participants serving no practical purpose. The corpus of conversations comes from gazeta.pl Internet forum. After briefly discussing terminological issues, the author presents specific features of the Internet communication, focusing on these characteristics which lead to the modification of standard conversational principles. Then, individual elements of the comunication process featuring in the corpus are analyzed and evaluated in terms of the degree of their resemblance to offline exchanges and their potential to introduce a new dimension to communication, absent from face to face interaction.