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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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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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THE ANALYSIS OF PRESUPPOSITION IN THE SHORT STORIES OF SILVESTER GORIDUS SUKUR
: This paper is descriptive qualitative which describes the types of presuppositions and their meaning in the short stories by Silvester Goridus Sukur.
Erwin Oktoma, Styfanus Mardiyono
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Adpositions and presuppositions [PDF]
This paper looks at presuppositions of adpositions, a topic which has not been examined much, in spite of the very large body of work on presuppositions. Some earlier assertions about adpositional presuppositions turn out not to be relevant, because (1) they are incorrect (2) presuppose and/or presupposition are not used in a technical sense in them ...
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Kuhn’s radical meaning variance thesis implies that scientists, who work in different paradigms cannot understand each other. This, however, seems incredible.
Adam Grobler
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A Pragmatic Study of Aggression in Some English Comic Strips
Aggression can be detected in speakers' language for many purposes such as criticism, refusal, delivering unpleasant messages or even solidarity among people. To cover the disagreeable consequences of such aggressions, speakers usually utilize humour as
Ahmed Mubarak, Sundus Allawi, MA
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CLAUSAL SUBSTITUTION IN ENGLISH AND BULGARIAN [PDF]
The article focuses on the ways and mechanisms clausal substitution in English works, thoroughly analysing said cohesive relation along with some of its most typical instances.
Snejana Obeyd
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Comparative Presupposition Study 2
This project aims to measure memory for truth and falsehood labelling comparatively across the following information packaging forms: assertion, conventional implicature, implicature, strong presupposition and weak ...
Eleanor Alice Miller
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