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, 2008 This paper reviews notions related to focus and presupposition and addresses the hypothesis that focus triggers an existential presupposition. Presupposition projection behavior in certain examples appears to favor a presuppositional analysis of focus ...
Abusch, Dorit, Dorit Abusch
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PRESUPPOSITION IN THE JAKARTA POSTS POLITICAL ARTICLES: A PRAGMATICS APPROACH
Indonesian EFL Journal, 2015 This study is aimed to investigate presupposition in The Jakarta Post daily newspapers articles in political column. It covers two problems: types of presupposition and triggers of presupposition. Those problems were identified by applying presupposition
Fahrus Zaman Fadhly, Ayu Putri Kurnia
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Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives [PDF]
Journal of Semantics, 2009 This paper considers a set of presupposition triggers including focus, questions, ‘contrastive’ statives and an ‘affirmation/negation’ construction involving and not, where presuppositions are cancellable. It is proposed that these constructions, rather than having strict semantic presuppositions, have representations involving alternative sets in the ...
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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