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Presupposition, perceptional relativity and translation theory
The intertwining of assertions and presuppositions in utterances affects the way a text is perceived in the source language (SL) and the target language (TL).
El-Gamal, Ayman
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Experimental Investigations of the Typology of Presupposition Triggers [PDF]
The behaviour of presupposition triggers in human language has been extensively studied and given rise to many distinct theoretical proposals. One intuitively appealing way of characterising presupposition is to argue that it constitutes backgrounded ...
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Presupposition triggering from alternatives [PDF]
Final prepublication version of a paper to be published in Journal of Semantics.This paper considers a set of presupposition triggers including focus, questions, 'contrastive' statives, and an 'affirmation/negation' construction involving and not, where ...
Abusch, Dorit
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Presuppositions as beliefs [PDF]
Most theories of presupposition implicitly assume that presuppositions are facts, and that all agents involved in a discourse share belief in the presuppositions that it generates. These unrealistic assumptions can be eliminated if each presupposition is treated as the belief of an agent.
Diane Horton, Graeme Hirst
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Textual Presupposition: An Intertextual Account
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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PRESUPPOSITION STRATEGIES IN DATA INTERPRETATION: CORPUS DATA ANALYSIS
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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Understanding Advertiser’s Intention: The Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in Advertisement
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 and negation † [PDF]
Abstract Ever since Strawson proposed (1950, 1952, 1954) to regard the negation operator in natural language as presupposition-preserving, there has been unclarity, in most of the literature, about the logical consequences of such a proposal. There was, and is, moreover, great unclarity regarding the relation between the semantics and
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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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