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Publication details [#60721]

Mohammed, Dima, Marcin Lewiński, Paula Castro and Mehmet Ali Uzelgun. 2015. Managing disagreement through yes, but… constructions: An argumentative analysis. Discourse Studies 17 (4) : 467–484.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications

Annotation

This study presents a pragma-dialect account of how environmental activists treat their accord and discord (sequencing) over climate change via concessive yes, but… conceding arguments. Whilst debating opinions, speakers evoke various kinds of criticism (sufficiency, relevance, acceptability).