Abstract
Whether reading The Great Gatsby or grading freshman compositions, readers expect texts to make sense. Beyond the happenchance of contiguity, they expect words, sentences, and paragraphs to establish mutual dependencies and grow into cohesive wholes. The assumption of cohesion is one of the basic rules of the language game in which we all participate. From a linguistically spare but situationally rich fragment of dialogue like
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