Title: An Analysis of the Textual Function of Presupposition in News Discourse
Abstract:Presupposition refers to linguistically triggered propositions,which can also be understood as the shared knowledge of the addresser and addressee enabling the dynamic progress of communicative discou...Presupposition refers to linguistically triggered propositions,which can also be understood as the shared knowledge of the addresser and addressee enabling the dynamic progress of communicative discourse.In news discourse,presupposition could serve as the theme of a clause,help to construct different thematic progression patterns and contribute to the coherence of news discourse in deep structure.In this way,the information flow in news discourse would be more lucid,concise and coherent.Read More
Publication Year: 2011
Publication Date: 2011-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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