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Polyseeminen "vaikka" ja neuvottelun retoriikka / Polysemic forms of "vaikka " and the rhetoric of negotiation

2006

Polysemic forms of vaikka and the rhetoric of negotiation (englanti) 2/2006 (110) Polysemic forms of vaikka and the rhetoric of negotiation The article analyses the use of the Finnish lexeme vaikka ([al]though but also even if, say, for example and on the other hand, indeed) in spoken Finnish, and especially in certain planning and negotiating situations. The forms in which this lexeme occur are described as facilitators of argumentation based on concessiveness. The writer applies the cardinal concessive schema of Couper-Kuhlen and Thompson (2000): In negotiations this schema is used to modify, weaken or contradict statement X and to confirm counter statement Y. The writer hypothesises that…