Жанравыя асаблівасці інскрыпту (дарчага надпісу)

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.