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
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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
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PROPRES: Investigating the Projectivity of Presupposition with Various Triggers and Environments
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 boy had shed tears before).
Daiki Asami, Saku Sugawara
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Experimental Investigations of the Typology of Presupposition Triggers
Humana.Mente: Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2012 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 ...
Chris Cummins +2 more
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Same and different are additive presupposition triggers
Linguistics and PhilosophyAbstractWe propose an account of interpretive effects involving same and different, relying on two claims: the first is that same and different are able to take scope, and the second is that they are presuppositional. On this account, same and different are decomposed into two parts: an additive operator TOO and a (non-)identity predicate.
Line Mikkelsen, Hardt Daniel
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ANALYSING PRESUPPOSITION: A STUDY ON PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO’S STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS (SONA), 2022
Language Literacy: Journal of Linguistics, Literature, and Language Teaching, 2023 Presupposition can be said to be an assumption of a speaker prior to making an utterance or an implied claim of an utterance. Using qualitative method, the researchers examined various language structures that give rise to presuppositions.
James Gyimah Manu +2 more
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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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Pragmatics Analysis of Presupposition as Found in The Tagline of Horror Movie Posters
Vivid: Journal of Language and Literature, 2020 This research is about pragmatics analysis of presupposition as found in the tagline of horror movie posters. This research aimed to discover presupposition triggers and type of presupposition in the tagline of horror movie posters. In this research, the
Yelmi Roza, Ayumi Ayumi
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الكشف عن المعنى المستتر: دراسة تحليلية لمحفزات الافتراضات المسبقة في نص المقابلة التليفزيونية للأمير هاري وميجان Revealing the Concealed: An Investigation of Presupposition Triggers in Meghan and Harry’s T.V. Interview [PDF]
Wadī Al-Nīl Lil Dirāsāt wa Al-Buẖūṯ Al-Insāniyyaẗ wa Al-Iğtimāʿiyyaẗ wa Al-Tarbawiyyaẗ, 2022 يتم فهم وافتراض أكثر مما يقال أثناء التواصل في المحادثات. فأثناء المحادثات، يضع المستمعون افتراضات بناءً على ما هو صحيح أو معروف بالفعل أو متعارف عليه من قبل المشاركين بالحديث.
مروة عبد المنعم
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