The inscriptions in the Ukrainian language in the private library of Professor A. I. Gubar

The article focuses on the texts of dedicatory inscriptions in the private library of the Crimean Professor of literature A.I. Gubar that were left by the recipients in the Ukrainian language. The topicality of the study is primarily dictated by the constant scientific interest in various forms of creative interactions between writers and the increasing attention to the communicative aspects of text analysis. The purpose of the research is to consider inscriptions on the example of a separate library collection from the point of view of communicative components of this type of texts and to solve a number of problems related to the study of structural components of inscriptions due to different situations of giving. The paper is based on the descriptive and analytical approaches, the methods of component, contextual and comparative analyses were applied. It is pointed that book inscription is related to dialogueness as a communicative act, and the texts of inscriptions preserved in books are presented as unique lines of interpersonal dialogues of different addressees, addressed to one addressee (less often to two). Some of these inscriptions are characterised by a brief speech, etiquette and formality which is especially significant in inscriptions of the same author. The texts become more extended examples of convivial, creative, scientific, and etc. communication between the author and addressee. One of the markers of attitudes in the analysed texts are the participants' names, and include eloquent proper nouns and descriptive constructions, besides various forms of proper names. Dedicatory inscriptions in the books of A. I. Gubar’s library collection provide new information about a dialogue based on common interests, respect, and gratitude. These inscriptions are also a valuable source for studying Crimean literary life from the second half of the XX century to the first years of the XXI century. A special place in the corpus of dedicatory inscriptions is dedicated to Russian language inscriptions with inserts in Ukranian. Inscriptions deserve independent research due to revealing the tradition of developing in Crimean literary circles not only interpersonal, but also intercultural dialogue.

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