ON THE HISTORY OF THE WORD “JOURNALISM” IN FRENCH AND ENGLISH
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https://doi.org/10.18522/1995-0640-2025-4-184-196
Abstract. This article attempts to trace the history of the word “journalism” in English and French with the aim of critically evaluating the claim of the English sociologist J. Chalaby that it was an Anglo-American invention. The analysis of the articles in the English press of the early 1830s, where the word “journalism” first appeared, strongly suggests that it could have been called a French invention at least half a century before the emergence of discursive practices underlying modern Anglo-American journalism.
Key words: history of journalism, invention of journalism, journalism, journalisme
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