“…Mey, 1993;Caffi, 2006;Hübler, 2011), the salience and hierarchy of metapragmatic awareness (Verschueren, 1999(Verschueren, , 2000, and markers that reflect metapragmatic awareness (Grundy, 2000;Verschueren, 1999Verschueren, , 2000. Recently, researchers also conducted a metapragmatic analysis of specific linguistic structures (e.g., Bublitz & Hübler, 2007;Ran, 2013). Current metapragmatics studies mostly explore the self-reflexive, self-monitoring, and intervening nature of language in general or from a micro perspective (e.g., Caffi, 1984Caffi, , 1994Lucy, 1993;Silverstein, 1993;Hübler & Bulitz, 2007;Hübler, 2011).…”