This paper scrutinizes concessive relations explicitly signalled by conjunctive (e.g. but, although, though), prepositional (e.g. despite, in spite of, regardless of), adverbial (e.g. however, yet, still) and pronominal (e.g. whatever, whoever) connectors. The study is based on 393 tokens extracted from SOCC, a corpus of online news comments (Kolhatkar et al., 2020) and it adopts a discourse-interactional perspective combining the interactional model (Couper-Kuhlen and Thompson, 2003, 2005; Barth-Weingarten, 2003) with prior research recognizing different observation levels (Sweetser, 1990; Crevels, 2000; Latos, 2009). We argue that the act of “conceding” in online news comments deploys specific concessive schemata (monadic and pseudo-dyadic) that generally realize an interpersonal function (as politeness and/or (dis)alignment strategies), although they may also work at the ideational (expressing a contrast or restricting the applicability of a claim) or textual (topic and discourse management) levels. Furthermore, the evaluative potential of concessive patterns is also teased out while simultaneously spotlighting their contribution to the degree of constructiveness and toxicity of online comments (Gautam and Taboada, 2019). In sum, our findings reveal that the capabilities of concessive relations are even broader and more manifold than previously suggested.

本文通过仔细检查结膜明示信令让步关系（例如但是，虽然，虽然），介词（例如，尽管，尽管，不论），状语（例如，然而，但，仍然）和代词（如什么，谁）连接器。该研究基于从在线新闻评论语料库（SOCC）中提取的393个令牌（Kolhatkar等人，2020年），并采用了结合互动模型的话语-互动视角（Couper-Kuhlen和Thompson，2003年，2005年； Barth- Weingarten，2003年），先前的研究认识到不同的观测水平（Sweetser，1990； Crevels，2000； Latos，2009）。我们认为，在线新闻评论中的“让步”行为会部署特定的优惠模式（单子和伪二元模式），这些模式通常会实现人际交往的功能（例如礼貌和/或（失调）策略），尽管它们也可能适用于概念性的（表达对比或限制索赔的适用性）或文字（主题和语篇管理）级别。此外，还探讨了优惠模式的评估潜力，同时重点介绍了其对在线评论的建设性和毒性程度的贡献（Gautam和Taboada，2019）。总而言之，我们的发现表明，优惠关系的能力比以前建议的更为广泛和多样。