SCIENTIFIC MEMOIRS OF PROFESSOR ALEXANDRA SERBENSKA: DIFFERENTIATION AND SIGNIFICANCE

The article explores memoirs about scientists of Lviv universities by Professor of Journalism department of Lviv Ivan Franko National University Oleksandra Serbenska, academisian of Academy of Higher Education of Ukraine, and discovers their belonging to publicistics as a type of written creative work. Based on differential approach, it is determined that memoirs by Professor Oleksandra Serbenska which had been published in printed media since 1990 up to present days, are not writer’s works, but journalism as they were based on real facts, events without any fiction and have argumentation of author’s thoughts based on facts, documents and journalistic forms. 

The typology of memoirs of Professor Oleksandra Serbenska was made according to the types of their publications: traditional and new mass media, in particular, publications in scientific all-Ukrainian and Lviv magazines, bulletins of Lviv universities, collections of scientific works of the National Library of Ukraine and Lviv universities. Vernadsky, Lviv National Library of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine named after V. Stefanyk, collective memoirs, book of memoirs. At the same time, the article explores publications published on the Internet on the websites of the archives of Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Lviv online TV channels «Your City», «Variants» Lviv», on Youtube and Telegram channels, websites of Bulletins of Ivan Franko Lviv National University (philological and journalism series) and websites of the bulletin of Lviv Polytechnic National University (series «Problems of Ukrainian terminology».

The typology of memoirs of Professor Oleksandra Serbenska was carried out according to the contribution of scientists to the sections of Ukrainian linguistics. It is proved that the memoirs of Professor Oleksandra Serbenska were published as a contribution to the history of Ukrainian linguistics, in particular the memoir scientific linguo-personology. Professor Oleksandra Serbenska’s memoirs are not only objects of the history of the Ukrainian language, but also of source studies of the history of Ukraine, history of Ukrainian science, history of Ivan Franko Lviv University, Lviv Polytechnic, history of Ukrainian journalism, history of Ukrainian journalism.

It has been discovered that the memoirs of Professor Oleksandra Serbenska belong to the genres of publicistic journalism, and their varieties have been identified.