About the Book in the Polish Press. Diachrony and Synchrony of the Research Field

Abstract

Connections between the book and the press have been known to scientists for a long time. However not from the beginning different forms were used at the same stage, not always similar journalistic types were applied. The character, role, advantages and functions of the transfer of information connected with literature were dependent on many factors. Over the centuries, some forms (like review) were clearly transformed in substantive terms, but internal character of other forms (like editorial advertising) did not change so much, which was an
effect of different factors. The aim of the paper will be an attempt to answer a question – is it possible to talk about the form of book promotion in the press in diachronic terms (can you distinguish distinct phases in each period of press development)? Perhaps this is mainly a synchronic phenomenon? Maybe we are dealing with some simultaneous order, something that is going on here and now, or maybe with the past and predictions of future states? In the first part of the paper, there were discussed the changing function and tasks of the press throughout history, in the second investigated the development of the review as a representative of the subject matter of the form of book information has been reviewed, published in newspapers and magazines.