Concession

[Luuk Lagerwerf]

Hi Chungmin Lee,

In my dissertation I deal with concessions expressed by English
"but" and Dutch "maar", but I have never heard of a game-theoretic
concept of concession. Can you explain this concept?

Kind regards,
Luuk.

Lagerwerf, Luuk (1998), Causal Connectives have presuppositions.
Effects on coherence and discourse structure. Dissertation Tilburg
University, Netherlands.
See:  http://www.hagpub.com/lot/lot-titles.html

> I noticed everyone introducing one's research interest(s). I am currently
> interested in working on Contrastive Topic, Topic and Focus, and their
> intonation patterns. Also, I am interested in negative polarity and free
> choice in relation to a game-theoretic concept of CONCESSION. I am
> interested in both functional and formal approaches to discourse.
> ---Chungmin Lee clee at humnet.ucla.edu or clee at plaza.snu.ac.kr