Title: A presupposition analysis of sea foam short story in the jakarta post on monday, october 23rd, 2017
Abstract:This research elaborates the presupposition and interprets the meaning of presupposition which are already classified into the presupposition types in the short story text entitled Sea Foam and identi...This research elaborates the presupposition and interprets the meaning of presupposition which are already classified into the presupposition types in the short story text entitled Sea Foam and identifies the most dominant type of presupposition. The steps to be followed in this study are exploring the concept of presupposition, investigating the pragmatic presupposition, and identifying the potential presupposition used in the short story text in The Jakarta Post according to the Yule’s theory of presupposition. The analysis of data has shown that this short story rely heavily on existential presuppositions (definite descriptions) with 20 of the studied samples. In order to analyze the data, the researcher employs Yule’s theory that decides presupposition into six types: existential presupposition, factive presupposition, lexical presupposition, structural presupposition, non-factive presupposition, and counter factual presupposition. The data of the research are sentences which has presupposition triggers. The result of this study shows that based on Yule’s theory, it has been found that there are 20 presuppositions. 8 lexical presuppositions, 5 factive presuppositions, 3 existential presuppositions, 2 structural presuppositions, the last are non factive and counter factual presupposition with 1 presupposition per each.Read More
Publication Year: 2017
Publication Date: 2017-10-12
Language: en
Type: dissertation
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