Historia historii komunikacji w zarysie

This article focuses on the relatively new area of communication research and communciology, which is the history of communication. The paper summarizes the origins of communication history and indicates the most important scientific areas and approaches that have shaped its present condition. The historical approach to communication phenomena is derived from several important and influential fields of communication research, e.g. the Toronto School of Communications, the ritual view of communication, intellectual history and history of mentalities, cultural anthropology and others. This paper outlines the origins as well as the current state of research and connects its main areas with three fundamental aspects of communication history: communication practices, media and collective representations of communication.