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The Encyclopedia of Terminology for Conversation Analysis and Interactional Linguistics /
Show concession
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Description: In an argument, a concession to the other's position weakens one's own. With what Antaki and Wetherell (1999) call a "show" concession, however, the speaker makes a play of conceding something, but only to disarm a potential objection and bolster their own position.
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