Dismissive Relation
Dismissive Relation
A dismissive relation is an interpropositional relation which communicates the irrelevancy of some proposition(s) to some other(s) without communicating contraexpectation.
A dismissive relation is sometimes similar to an indefinite concessive relation.
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Source: Halliday and Hasan 1976
Halliday, M. A. K., and Ruqaiya Hasan. 1976.Cohesion in English. London: Longman.
