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Publication details [#65389]

Musi, Elena. 2018. How did you change my view? A corpus-based study of concessions’ argumentative role. Discourse Studies 20 (2) : 270–288.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

argumentation | concession | corpus analysis | perspective | persuading

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

In daily communicative arenas, people start critical debates to convince others to alter their ideas about matters of personal and public interest. Discourse analysts have regarded concessions as licensed tactics to manage discord and achieve concord.