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Illusion vs Reality: Lexical Presupposition Triggers in the Narrative Tiers of Selected Characters in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby [PDF]

Mağallaẗ Kulliyyaẗ Al-Adāb Bi-Qinā
This study is aimed at exploring the types, meaning and functions of lexical presupposition triggers employed in the narrative tiers in the portrayal of Gatsby and Daisy’s characters in Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby.
Iman Raouf Muhammad
exaly   +3 more sources

Presupposition Triggers: Iraqi EFL Students' Strategies in Approaching Presupposition

International Journal of English Literature and Social Sciences, 2022
EFL students are observed to face various difficulties in approaching pragmatic issues; therefore, they resort to numerous strategies to arrive at convincing pragmatic interpretations, among these issues, presupposition constitutes one of the problematic
A. Hussien, H. Mohammed
exaly   +3 more sources

On the Role of Focus-Sensitivity for a Typology of Presupposition Triggers

Journal of Semantics, 2022
AbstractThis paper presents two experiments comparing presupposition triggers that differ with respect to Focus-sensitivity. The hypothesis was that Focus-sensitive (+focus) triggers require a linguistic antecedent in the discourse model, whereas presuppositions of triggers lacking Focus-sensitivity (–focus) are satisfied as entailments of the Common ...
Alexander Göbel
exaly   +3 more sources

PROPRES: Investigating the Projectivity of Presupposition with Various Triggers and Environments [PDF]

Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL), 2023
What makes a presupposition of an utterance —information taken for granted by its speaker— different from other pragmatic inferences such as an entailment is projectivity (e.g., the negative sentence the boy did not stop shedding tears presupposes the ...
Daiki Asami, Saku Sugawara
exaly   +4 more sources

Presupposition Triggers and Presumptive Interpretation [PDF]

Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy and Psychology, 2019
Pragmatic presuppositions are analyzed considering their relation with the notion of commitment, namely the dialogical acceptance of a proposition by an interlocutor. The attribution of commitments carried out by means of pragmatic presupposition is shown to depend on the reasonableness of the underlying presumptive reasoning, ultimately grounded on ...
Fabrizio Macagno, Macagno Fabrizio
exaly   +3 more sources

Is Immediate Processing of Presupposition Triggers Automatic or Capacity-Limited? A Combination of the PRP Approach with a Self-Paced Reading Task. [PDF]

J Psycholinguist Res, 2020
Informally speaking, presuppositions are meaning components which are part of the common ground for speakers in a conversation, that is, background information which is taken for granted by interlocutors.
Schneider C, Bade N, Janczyk M.
europepmc   +3 more sources

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
doaj   +2 more sources

Presupposition and Presupposition Triggers in Turkish

Korkut Ata Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2023
İletişimin devamlılığı için iş birliği içerisinde olmak ne kadar önemliyse konuşurlar arasındaki ortak bağlamın, deneyimlerin ve genel geçer bilgilerin varlığı da bir o kadar önem taşımaktadır.
Seçil Hi̇ri̇k
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

The Presupposition Triggers in Thesis Abstract

International Journal of English and Applied Linguistics (IJEAL), 2021
drew a summary of the author's writing in a thesis or others publication research. It was outlined some essential points to ease the reader toward the whole investigation.
Eka Surya Fitriani
semanticscholar   +2 more sources

An Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in “Turning Red”

IDEAS: Journal on English Language Teaching and Learning, Linguistics and Literature, 2023
This research analyzes the triggers of the presupposition that can be discovered in the movie "Turning Red." The purpose of this study is to identify the use of triggers of the presupposition that are employed in the movie "Turning Red." In the movie ...
D. Fitriani, Mhd. Johan
semanticscholar   +2 more sources