Rebranding Concessive Condition As Internal Concessive Consequence

Martin & Rose (2007: 140):

Internal counterexpectant consequence is known as concessive. In speech it is commonly realised by but:

Coetzee: I told all this to the Commission.
Ernest: — Yes,
            but now you're telling us.

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To be clear, here the authors simply rebrand the grammatical clause complexing relation of concessive condition, whose meaning is if P then contrary to expectation Q (Halliday & Matthiessen 2014: 478), as marked by although, as their discourse semantic relation of concessive consequence.