Кіbets O. Discursive words "действительно", "в самом деле", "на самом деле", "именно" as epistemic and rhetorical operators: pragmasemantic aspect of their functioning

Тhe object of the study is discursive words "действительно", "в самом деле", "на самом деле", "именно". The aim of the work is to explain the way of the forming of the investigated words pragmasemantic functions in different communicative-pragmatic situations, and to identify likeness and differences in their functions. The methods of contexts content interpretation, mental formulas modelling, linguistic experiment were used. The novelty and the results of the work - four words, which have not been an object of a joint and detailed analysis, have been studied in complex.The similar and different functions of the described words have been revealed and special mental formulas, characterizing the words functions, have been suggested in the work. Application field is semantics, pragmatics, rhetorics, lexicology, lexicography.