Communicative clarity disruptions of a text in the perception of a political interview (a psycholinguistic experiment)

The article focuses on the category of communicative clarity and its topicality. It emphasizes the necessity to study communicative clarity in political discourse, namely in political interviews. The second part of the article presents the results of a psycholinguistic experiment. It was conducted using the political interviews with Russian politicians in a text version. The author hypothesizes that communicative clarity can be disrupted at three levels: linguistic, logical and status.