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Presupposition Trigger-A Comparative Analysis of Broadcast News Discourse

International Journal of Linguistics, 2012
Presupposition has long been used as a property of language to mold the audience’s ideology. Using presupposition triggers, surprisingly the author or speaker impinges on readers or listeners’ interpretation of facts and events, establishing either a favorable or unfavorable bias throughout the text.
Javad Zare', Ehsan Abbaspour, Mahdi Rajaee Nia   +2 more
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Focus, Uniqueness and Soft Presupposition Triggers

2012
Von Heusinger (2007) shows that the definite article's uniqueness presupposition causes problems in a standard account of focus alternatives. He solves this problem by proposing a new lexical entry for the definite article, a solution adopted by Riester and Kamp (2010). This paper shows that the observed behavior is not limited to the definite article,
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Change of State and Factive Nominals and Nominalizations as Presupposition Triggers [PDF]

, 2022
This paper aims to verify that nominal forms corresponding to change of state predicates and factive predicates are presupposition triggers as well as their verbal equivalents. We support this idea by providing data mainly from IMPAQTS, a corpus pragmatically annotated for implicit contents (namely presuppositions, conventional and conversational ...
Cominetti, F, Giunta, G
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Particles: Presupposition Triggers, Context Markers or Speech Act Markers

2004
This chapter discusses two possible formal approaches to the semantic/pragmatic characterization of a subclass of modal particles. It may well be that the approaches can be applied to other particles or that they can be applied to certain intonational patterns (e.g., contrastive stress), to morphemes (past tense, agreement) or to words (pronouns) and ...
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Presupposition cancellation: explaining the ‘soft–hard’ trigger distinction

Natural Language Semantics, 2016
Some presuppositions are easier to cancel than others in embedded contexts. This contrast has been used as evidence for distinguishing two fundamentally different kinds of presuppositions, ‘soft’ and ‘hard’. ‘Soft’ presuppositions are usually assumed to arise in a pragmatic way, while ‘hard’ presuppositions are thought to be genuine semantic ...
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On the Role of Focus-Sensitivity for a Typology of Presupposition Triggers

Journal of Semantics, 2022
Alexander Göbel
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Presupposition triggers and (not-)at-issueness: Insights from language acquisition into the soft-hard distinction

Journal of Pragmatics, 2022
Yuqiu Chen, Maik Thalmann, Mailin Antomo
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Presupposition and Presupposition Triggers in the National Anthem

Sözce oluşturan/konuşan/yazar ve sözceye maruz kalan/dinleyen/okur arasında ortak bilgi birikiminin olması iletişimin sağlığı ve devamlılığı için gereklidir. Bu bilgiler kimi zaman sözce içinde açıkça söylenirken çoğu zaman açıkça söylenmemektedir. Sözce oluşturulurken göndericinin ve alıcının bildiği örtük bilgiye önvarsayım denir.
Söylemez, Yusuf, Kasımoğlu Dönmez, Berrin   +1 more
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'A pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition Triggers in Ernest Hemingway’s 'A Farewell to Arms

مجلة کلية الاداب.جامعة المنصورة
باسم فاخر حسين حسين
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Syntactic Presupposition Triggers in Narration about Gatsby and Daisy’s Characters in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby: A Pragmatic Analysis

Alsun Beni-Suef International Journal of Linguistics Translation and Literature
Iman Raouf Muhammad
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