The article deals with the functioning features of distance connectors in the modern French language. The pragmatic connectors that relate to metatextual elements play an important role not only in proper organization, but also in the interpretation of speech. In the process of speech production there is often the necessity of its reorganization due to the changes of speaker’s point of view. To introduce a new proposition the speaker uses the connectors of reformulation, which include the distance connectors. The article focuses on the role ofmetacommunicative elements in text structure, represents four types of non-paraphrasticreformulation depending on the distance. Special place is given to the operation of distance connectors. The ratio of distance connectors and the polyphony of voices of the subject of speechis found out. The research results may be used in the course of theoretical and practical grammar, text interpretation, and linguistic pragmatics.