THE PERIODICAL- THE MOST COMMON PAPER PUBLISHED REGULARLY

Abstract

In this paper, we shall not discuss the role of the periodical in terms of communication and education values, nor the number or variety of periodicals in the society, but rather, in order to stress out the very importance of scholarly periodicals, the semantic contents of the very term. There are many views on what a periodical is or should contain, depending on its purpose, the context, the variety of the topics, as well as on the different ambitions about the status it should have in the society. In every community, historical events contibute to the occurence of periodicals, and their number and the value of articles, without exception, reflect the current affairs. The occurence of new periodicals is associated with the cultural renaissance of a community. The emergence of new papers and periodicals in different social environments means that the dynamics of the cultural renaissance of the community in question are being materialised. This has been clearly manifested in the developed countries of Western Europe, Egypt, the most populated Arabic country, as well as in Bosnia and Herzegovina.