Основой для исследования послужили публикации популярной британской газеты Daily Mail, рассчитанной на самые широкие круги англоязычных читателей. <...> На основании проведенного исследования сформирован языковой портрет типичного автора «письма в газету»: это мужчина среднего возраста и старше, образованный и социально ангажированный. <...> Here we would like to present the results of an analysis of a certain section of newspaper texts that so far has not been the subject of philological investigation. <...> Our aim is to discuss letters to newspapers as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon and as a means of creating a collective portrait of the most active section of newspaper readers. <...> In this country such interaction between a newspaper and its readers has never been as widely spread. <...> Most British newspapers regularly publish various letters which are allotted a special place in their layout. <...> In English literature we can often come across a character, particularly a gentleman of a certain age, profession and social position with his Telegraph, Times or Morning Post intending to communicate his point of view through the newspaper he respects. <...> The material for this analysis is obtained from the popular British newspaper the Daily Mail. <...> Almost every issue of the Daily Mail contains a list of questions (about five) that are later published with the answer given by some reader. <...> Another section in the same week contained answers to a letter which proposed an introduction of England’s own national anthem. <...> It is also important to mention that this correspondence creates an atmosphere of interactive communication between the newspaper and its readers: thus the traditional part of the newspaper has become a means of meeting new challenges and satisfying the demands of the time. <...> On the other hand, the newspaper publishes letters like the one by Graham Ludlam from Derbyshire: Instead of relying on hideously inefficient wind turbines for our future energy needs, we should all buy nylon bed linen. <...> In the first letter cited here, for instance, the author uses a colourful expression misleadingly parachuted into the economic jolly which clearly shows his attitude towards both the statistics he is speaking about and the Davos forum. <...> On the basis of the philological methods of studying the linguistic persona [Gyubbenet <...>