Abstract
The relevance theory is used as a way which attempts to explain how parentheticals are related to the host sentence and how they contribute to the interpretation of the speaker’s intention. The article has two goals: - to explain in what way parenthetical clauses are linked to their host clauses and whether the various types of parentheticals differ in this respect; - to draw attention to the reason for introducing a parenthetical clause into the main utterance. Using the framework of Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson 2018), the article explains what governs the use and the position of such structures. The methodology employed in the current study might encourage future studies dealing with word order, information structure and related issues. The scientific nοvelty οf the article is that parentheticals cοnsist οf wοrds, phrases οr sentences that are inserted intο a sentence tο prοvide additiοnal explanatοry οr cοmmentary infοrmatiοn.
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