Aspects of the functioning of the response cues “Разве?” and “Неужели?”

Abstract

The paper is dedicated to the analysis of speech formulas «Разве?» и «Неужели?» which could be acted as separate response cues. The use of both formulas allows the intentions of maintaining a conversation to be realized, however, the choice of a specific cue should be determined by the different pragmatic meanings. To determine these meanings we have analyzed relevant contexts, selected from the National Corpus of the Russian Language.