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Context and Appropriateness: Micro meets macro
Edited by Anita Fetzer
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 162] 2007
► pp. 235–260

Collaborative use of contrastive markers

Contextual and co-textual implications

Francesca Carota | Institut des Sciences Cognitives-CNRS, Lyon
The study presented in this paper examines the context-dependence and dialogue functions of the contrastive markers of Italian ma (but), invece (instead), mentre (while) and però (nevertheless) within task-oriented dialogues. Corpus data evidence their sensitivity to a acognitive interpersonal context, conceived as a common ground. Such a cognitive state – shared by co-participants through the coordinative process of grounding – interacts with the global dialogue structure, which is cognitively shaped by “meta-negotiating” and grounding the dialogue topic. Locally, the relation between the current dialogue structural units and the global dialogue topic is said to be specified by information structure, in particular intra-utterance themes. It is argued that contrastive markers re-orient the co-participants’ cognitive states towards grounding ungrounded topical aspects to be meta-negotiated. They offer a collaborative context-updating strategy, tracking the status of common ground during dialogue topic management.
Published online: 13 July 2007
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https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.162.13car
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