Theories of presupposition in the tradition associated with Karttunen, Stalnaker and Heim relate presupposition satisfaction to the content of conversational participants’ epistemic states, usually modeled as sets of worlds. However, converging evidence from recent work on modality and from other areas of cognitive science suggests that epistemic states are better thought of as having the riche...

This paper attempts to describe the challenges and opportunities of social media in post-truth. The author will discuss this that is first process presuppositions formation. Second, post-Christian presuppositions. Third, build theological found need for institutions spread can discover elements hoax narrative. agencies are watching news responding public criticism. there a competition create ac...

This essay provides a brief introduction to the topic of presupposition, and then discuses three major approaches to this phenomenon, focusing on the answers which each approach gives to two foundational questions: What is presupposition? And how, or why, does it arise? 1. The phenomenon Consider sentence (1): (1) Jane has stopped drinking coffee in the evening. Among other things, this sentenc...

In this paper we would like to deal with interaction of presupposition triggers and show that the binding theory of presupposition comes up with it better than the satisfaction theory. In section 2, the newly developed presupposition conception is introduced. Section 3 explains the Binding Theory in contrast with the Satisfaction Theory. In sections 4 and 5, Kamp's new idea about the treatment ...

Definite phrases are often used to introduce new entities into discourse but the conditions under which this is possible are not well understood. Evans (2005) argued that the definite article may be used to introduce an entity if it is the most relevant of its type in its local frame of reference, dubbing this the “Small world hypothesis.” Additional arguments will be given in support of the Sm...

In contrast to classical lexical semantic relations between verbs, such as antonymy, synonymy or hypernymy, presupposition is a lexically triggered semantic relation that is not well covered in existing lexical resources. It is also understudied in the field of corpus-based methods of learning semantic relations. Yet, presupposition is very important for semantic and discourse analysis tasks, g...