Disclaim: Counter
CONTRACTION
An utterance which expresses the present proposition as replacing and thus ‘countering’ another proposition which would have been expected.
Typically, disclaim: counter involves conjunctions such as although, but, however, which signals the meanings of Counter in an explicit manner. This signals concession and counter expectations.
- Although the religion motif was not commonly discussed among the discussants, the relevance of this theme to these various texts need to be brought to attention.
- Although provisional, our model has implications for pedagogy.
- Despite the fact that both parties were manorial peasants , they must have found it very difficult to understand each other ‘s lifestyles .
- In comparison, 32% of the respondents felt that the conventional downtown was still a major attraction, even though the regional centre had gained quite a vast amount of popularity and did to large extent have an air of modernity.
- While the Supreme Court rejected the “quality of care” argument in the federation case, the oligopolistic characteristics and purchasing structure of insurance make this outcome unsurprising.
- While that grief is deeply understood, the problem with tragedies like this one is that they become a heyday for the overly-sincere, maudlin, righteousindignation crowd.
- Even though he had taken all his medication, his leg did n’t look any better.
- Even if the technology will not change our lives that much, we can change it by ourselves.
- Every single law is addressed to the men, with the use of the pronoun “he” throughout the text, even when the laws are closely referring to female issues.
- So they ‘re trying to create a candidate that can win rather than a candidate that addresses these issues that are important to people. (Disclaiming the idea of having a candidate who adresses important issues.)
- The author should have considered all the potnetial interpretations before making a strong claim.
- As Mary Ann Glendon notes , the American Constitution is “ not only a charter of rights but a design for government which places important limits on both judicial and legislative lawmaking “ ( Scalia , 108 - 9 ).
Disclaim: Counter sometimes includes less obvious realizations. For example, adjuncts such as even, only, just, and still may “also have a counter-expectational aspect to their meanings” (Martin & White, p. 121).
- They even organised a car for you at the airport.
- Still, they were able to win the game.
Disclaim: Counter would also include some adverbs that encode meanings of counter-expectations.
- Unexpectedly/Surprisingly/To my surprise, there seems to have been little smuggling this year.