Genre Features of an Inscription (Dedication) Cover Image

Жанравыя асаблівасці інскрыпту (дарчага надпісу)
Genre Features of an Inscription (Dedication)

Author(s): Anastasiya Albut
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: inscription (dedication); speech genre; substrate; basic inscription model; modification of basic inscription model

Summary/Abstract: An inscription (dedication) is analyzed as a speech genre on the set of texts byYakub Kolas (242 items) and Yanka Kupala (139 items). These writers are among those whocreated the modern literary Belarusian language and are highly appreciated in the society, sotheir communicative experience is worth examining. There are two main genre features of aninscription: substrate (any surface, on which something is written to be given to somebody) andinscription structure. Usually it deals with the basic model, consisting of several units. But thereare examples of modified basic inscription models. It helps a speaker to express his attitude toan addressee making such utterances a valuable object of pragmatics.

  • Issue Year: IX/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 169-176
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Belarusian