Czy się zmienia język w prasie?
Is the Language in the Press Changing?

Summary/Abstract: Contrary to the general opinion, that the language in Polish media after the year 1989 has dramatically changed, the author of the article reckons that grammatically and lexically differences of one genre medial texts from the inter-war 2 decades, from communist Poland and the 3rd Republic are minor (though there are some). The thesis is confirmed by D. Lewandowska’s comparative research results on statistic lexical structure, the so-called lexical variety and on concentration of the vocabulary of press information from the 1960s and contemporary. Similar conclusions result from a comparison of expressively and axiologically marked words in press utterances and in their headlines of various times. No significant differences are seen in a comparison of frequency lists of text vocabulary from Trybuna Ludu and Życie Warszawy from the years 1963–1967 and Rzeczpospolita from the years 2000–2001. Small differences between the lists reflect changes in the social role of designates of names which either have stopped being used or their frequency has changed, or have appeared after 1989.

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