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To accommodate or to ignore?: The presuppositions of again and continue across contexts
Glossa, 2018 One central question in presupposition theory concerns the effect of using a presupposition trigger in a context where its presupposition is not supported.
Florian Schwarz +2 more
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The Presupposition Triggers in Thesis Abstract
International Journal of English and Applied Linguistics (IJEAL), 2021 Abstract 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. Regarding the presupposition, this study purposed to see the triggers used in students' thesis' abstract and the way authors presuppose in their abstract writing from its ...
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PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS IN THE WASHINGTON POST AND LOST ANGELES TIMES ONLINE NEWS
Lingua: Jurnal Bahasa, Sastra dan Pengajarannya, 2019 The aim of this study is to analyze the use of presupposition triggers in the Washington Post and Los Angeles Times online news. This study was conducted using a qualitative approach.
Khairani Ade Guswita, Pratomo Widodo
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Using Triggers Without Projecting Presuppositions [PDF]
Topoi, 2014 Presuppositions are capable of projecting from under the scope of operators such as negation, but do not obligatorily do so. This creates a potential difficulty for the hearer of presupposition-bearing utterances, especially given the fact that speaker can use presupposition to convey entirely new information.
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Capacity limitations of processing presuppositions triggered by determiners
Acta Psychologica, 2020 Definite determiners trigger existence- and uniqueness-presuppositions, that is, the speaker assumes that it is taken for granted that there exists exactly one of the mentioned object in the relevant discourse. Indefinite determiners are associated with anti-uniqueness, that is, that there are several of the mentioned object.
Cosima, Schneider, Markus, Janczyk
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The cognitive load of presupposition triggers: mandatory and optional repairs in presupposition failure [PDF]
Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 2013 If a speaker utters a sentence p containing a presupposition trigger that activates a presupposition q, and q does not belong to the common ground of presuppositions, it is a case of presupposition failure. If this occurs, speakers are required to repair the failure to make sense of the utterance.
Domaneschi, Filippo +3 more
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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-QināThis 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
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Presupposition Accommodation of the German Additive Particle auch (= “too”)
Frontiers in Communication, 2019 Presupposition triggers differ with respect to whether their presupposition is easily accommodatable. The presupposition of focus-sensitive additive particles like also or too is often classified as hard to accommodate, i.e., these triggers are ...
Mira Grubic, Marta Wierzba
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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 "Turning Red," there are several triggers of presupposition can be found.
Dian Fitriani, Mhd. Johan
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The Presuppositions of Soft Triggers aren't Presuppositions
Semantics and Linguistic Theory, 2011 Presupposition triggers can be divided in two groups on the basis of whether the presuppositions they give rise to are easily defeasible or not. Abusch (2002) calls these two groups “soft” and “hard” triggers. In this paper I argue that the “presuppositions of soft triggers” is a label that actually identifies meaning components that sometimes arise as
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