Explication of pragmatic meanings of metacommunicative comments as a research problem
... primarily on the researcher’s intuition, which makes the resulting conclusions largely subjective. The article proposes an experimental approach that makes it possible to compare linguistic interpretation with native speakers’ perceptions. The experiment was conducted using data from the Russian National Corpus. Participants were asked to evaluate the acceptability of utterances containing different metacommunicative comments, the possibility of their mutual substitution in specific contexts,...