FEATURES OF THE USE OF METATEXTUAL CONSTRUCTIONS ESLI UGODNO AND ESLI KHOTITE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the constructions esli ugodno (‘if you like’) and esli khotite / esli khochesh (‘if you want’), which accompany the choice of nomination. The sources of the constructions under consideration are subordinate clauses in complex sentences of asymmetric structure: the conjunction esli in their composition is semantically related to an unexpressed metatextual component, which can be reconstructed as I can say this in another way. Therefore, these constructions can mark a transition from one nomination to another. The article shows that esli ugodno and esli khotite can accompany both risky and ordinary nominations. In the first case, the proposed nominations are connected with stylistic markedness, intensification of evaluation, non-standard linguistic expression, or language play. In the second case, nominations are used for explanation, specification, or another way of presenting an already named object or phenomenon. In this respect, esli ugodno and esli khotite differ from the metatextual units ne poboius etogo slova (‘I am not afraid to say this’), izvinite za vyrazhenie (‘excuse the expression’), and mozhno skazat (‘one might say’).