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Understanding Focus: Pitch, Placement and Coherence [PDF]

, 2020
This paper presents a novel account of focal stress and pitch contour in English dialogue. We argue that one should analyse and treat focus and pitch contour jointly, since (i) some pragmatic interpretations vary with contour (e.g., whether an utterance ...
Lascarides, Alex, Schlöder, Julian J.
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A Pragmatic Study of Presupposition in Masoud Barzani’s Speech ahead of the Referendum

Zanco Journal of Humanity Sciences, 2021
The lexical presupposition is one of the primary concepts of pragmatics, and it is used to include a general class of pragmatic and semantic phenomena that have a fundamental impact on the apprehension of utterances.
Hero Hassan Sadiq, Najat Muhammed Amin   +1 more
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Textual Presupposition: An Intertextual Account

مجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية, 2020
Whereas there has been ample research on presupposition, and different taxonomies have been put forward on the various types of presupposition, presupposition triggers, on the difference between entailment and presupposition, and on the dichotomy ...
Salah M. Salih
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Understanding Advertiser’s Intention: The Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in Advertisement

Acitya, 2022
An advertisement is media that is used by a producer or company to reach their goal of selling the product as much as possible. Through language used in an advertisement, the advertiser tries to manipulate the audience’s minds to buy a particular product
Nur Ijabah, Ade Windiana Argina
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PRESUPPOSITION STRATEGIES IN DATA INTERPRETATION: CORPUS DATA ANALYSIS

Jurnal KATA: Penelitian tentang Ilmu Bahasa dan Sastra, 2018
This study aims to describe the proses of data interpretation using presupposition strategy. Generally, presupposition refers to what the speaker assumes to be the case before making an utterance (Yule, 1996: 42).
Mohamad Suhaizi Suhaimi, Maslida Yusof
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Question Dynamics

Scientonomy, 2021
The paper presents a new scientonomic account of question dynamics. To explain the process of question acceptance and rejection, we begin by introducing the notion of epistemic presupposition and show how it’s different from the notion of logical ...
Hakob Barseghyan, Nichole Levesley
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Focus presuppositions [PDF]

, 2008
This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus ...
Abusch, Dorit
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On the Meaning of 'Therefore' [PDF]

, 2017
I argue for an analysis of ‘therefore’ as presupposition trigger against the more standard conventional implicature story originally put forward by Grice (1975).
Pavese, Carlotta
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A cross-linguistic view on the obligatory insertion of additive particles — Maximize Presupposition vs. Obligatory Implicatures

Glossa, 2021
Presupposition triggers, such as the additive particle too, the iterative particle again, and the definite determiner the, are obligatory if their presuppositions are satisfied in the context.
Agata Renans, Nadine Bade
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Negation, 'presupposition' and the semantics/pragmatics distinction [PDF]

, 1998
A cognitive pragmatic approach is taken to some long-standing problem cases of negation, the so-called presupposition denial cases. It is argued that a full account of the processes and levels of representation involved in their interpretation typically ...
Carston, R
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