Article Title：Parentheticals in Russian
Abstract：
Parentheticals are represented by a morphosyntactically disparate group of linguistic items, united in function: they signal information from a different discourse plane and function in the process of context selection. This paper proposes an integrated approach to the definition of parentheticals, through an examination of functional characteristics, prosodic features, syntactic and pragmatic constraints. Parentheticals are divided into two classes, procedural parentheticals and conceptual parentheticals, based on a distinction between procedural and conceptual meaning which stems from Relevance Theory. They are further analyzed in terms of four functional categories: subjective evaluation, addressee-oriented shifts, supplementary information, and metastatements. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: parentheticals; linguistic item; metastatements
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2004.02.008
Source：JOURNAL OF PRAGMATICS
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