Abstract
This paper compares the contextualization and linguistic realization of contrastive discourse relations in monadic and dyadic editing tasks produced in an experimental setting. Participants were asked to produce a well-formed argumentative text based on a skeleton text reduced to minimal propositional information while still containing the original argumentative sequential organization and default configuration of events. The goal was to understand the role of context in the production and processing of discourse against the background of the negotiation of discourse common ground and construal of discourse coherence. Context is conceived of as a dynamic relational construct, comprising social context, linguistic context (or: co-text) and cognitive context. The study is methodologically compositional across functional approaches to discourse grammar, discourse representation, and discourse pragmatics. The results of the experiment show that dyadic and monadic texts contextualize contrastive discourse relations and construe discourse coherence by utilizing a pool of contrastive discourse connectives and coherence strands, with monadic texts additionally entextualising social context, embedding contrastive contributions accordingly.
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