Przestrzenie kultury książki w publikacjach z zakresu savoir-vivre’u. Od PRL do Facebooka
The areas of book culture in the light of savoir-vivre publications. From Polish People’s Republic (PRL) to Facebook

Author(s): Stanisława Kurek-Kokocińska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Library and Information Science
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: personal culture; social and working life; savoir-vivre handbook; book culture; book-related behaviours
Summary/Abstract: In the humanities, the issue of the book is the subject of multifaceted studies. The place the book holdsin the social system has put emphasis on norms of everyday and social life,as well as other behaviours which fall within the scope of moral norms. These norms can also take the form of written savoir-vivre guides. The general goal of the presented work is to discover publications on savoir-vivre as a reading material containing content related to culture within the area of the book. The guiding idea behind the research was to highlight personal culture, which,as defined,also includes a person’s active contact with books. The main objective was to establish the existence of and to identify book-related behaviour types which are aincluded in the savoir-vivre canon. As a result of the conducted analysis, the knowledge area, referring to the relationship between people (readers, users) and the book, was broadened and further expanded with knowledge base of the place and means of presence of the book in human life in relation to established moral norms from Polish People's Republic (PRL) to Facebook.

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