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THE ANALYSIS OF PRESUPPOSITION IN THE SHORT STORIES OF SILVESTER GORIDUS SUKUR
English Review: Journal of English Education, 2015 : 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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Processing Presuppositions. Are Implicative Verbs Soft Triggers? [PDF]
Research in Language, 2021 This paper investigates the question whether implicative verbs should be considered as soft presupposition triggers, i.e., as triggers activating optional context repairs. I present the results of an experiment in which test subjects were asked to read short dialogues containing either presupposition triggers or conversational implicatures and, next ...
Włodarczyk, Mateusz
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The problem of Presupposition in George Orwell’s Novella Animal Farm
Journal of Pragmatics Research, 2019 This research attempts to investigate the pragmatics presupposition in George Orwell’s Novella Animal Farm. Specifically, it tries to identify and classify the presupposition used in conversation in Orwell’s novella.
Faizal Risdianto +2 more
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Experimentally investigating the production of additive presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2022 This study investigates under which circumstances speakers produce additive presupposition triggers such as too to understand what contexts (if any) necessitate their presence and how sensitive they are to discourse factors. Additives have been argued to be obligatory (in affirmative sentences) as soon as their presupposition is met in the context.
Lorson, Alex +2 more
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Presupposition processing declines with age. [PDF]
Cogn Process, 2022 The present study investigates the processing of presuppositions across the life span and extends the findings of the only available study on presupposition processing and typical aging by Domaneschi and Di Paola (J Pragmat 140:70–87, 2019). In an online
Reinecke R +3 more
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Proper names in the role of presupposition triggers [PDF]
, 2020 When creating or perceiving utterances in the process of communication, everyone, regardless of linguistic or cultural background, primarily relies on the experience and knowledge of the world, correlating what is said with reality and producing mental operations to identify the semantic core of the text.
Колосова, Ганна Андріївна
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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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Switching the Strategy for Processing Presupposition Triggers: Split of Focus and the Reinterpretation of Triggers' Scope [PDF]
, 2019 The aim of this paper is to identify factors that assist in switching from the default strategy (resolution strategy) for interpreting presupposition triggers to the secondary one (accom- modation strategy or rejection strategy), namely, mechanisms by ...
Sato, Masaya
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Textual Presupposition: An Intertextual Account
مجلة جامعة كويه للعلوم الانسانية والاجتماعية, 2020 Whereas there has been ample research on presupposition, and different taxonomies have been put forward on the various types of presupposition, presupposition triggers, on the difference between entailment and presupposition, and on the dichotomy ...
Salah M. Salih
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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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