AndreevaOlgaAlexandrovnaCountry: RussiaCity: SaratovCompany: Saratov State University, Russia, 410012, Saratov, Astrakhanskaya street, 83 Position: Graduate Student, Chair of the Russian Language and Speech CommunicationE-mail: polise1988@rambler.ru Author's articles The Tatistics of Softening the Categoricity of the Statement (on the Material of the Author’s Personal Notes of Conversational Speech)