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Metainformational operators may play various roles in linguistic texts: they participate in the organisation of the processes of conveying and receiving information, they characterise certain parts of verbal communication from various aspects, and serve as a source of linguistic, pragmatic, and extralinguistic information. In this paper operators of the following types are discussed: 'a szó szoros értelmében' (in a strict sense), 'a szó átvitt értelmében' (figuratively speaking), 'jogi nyelven fogalmazva' (to use legal parlance), 'ne tessék engem rosszul érteni' (do not get me wrong), 'mint tudjuk' (as we know), 'mint ismeretes' (as is well known), 'röviden szólva' (briefly) etc.