This paper deals with the puzzle of sentences like (i.a), which denies (i.b). (i) a. The King of France is not bald, because there is no King of France. b. The King of France is bald. In previous analyses of such examples two problems are often overlooked: the first is that (i.a) is supposed to express denial of (i.b) specifically on the grounds that the existence of a King of France is its pre...

Pragmatic accounts of presupposition projection go back to work of Karttunen and Stalnaker, who proposed that presuppositions are requirements on the common ground and that their projection behaviour should follow from the way this common ground is updated in a discourse. This idea has been worked out by various authors who made the idea of shifting context precise, most notably Heim 1983, and ...

The present paper presents an anaphoric account of presupposition. It is argued that presuppositional expressions should not be seen as referring expressions, nor is presupposition to be explicated in terms of some non-standard logic. The notion of presupposition should not be relegated to a pragmatic theory either. Instead presuppositional expressions are claimed to be anaphoric expressions wh...

A central aspect of language comprehension is that hearers integrate incoming linguistic content both with the rest of the current sentence and the larger discourse context. Presuppositions crucially interact with both intraand inter-sentential context in intricate ways, which makes their study especially useful in this regard. We present a series of experiments investigating the time-course of...

The Study is devoted to presupposition in short story. Based on Yule’s view the types of have been presented. In study, story (Throne and Crown Kwekha Homer-Taji Takhti kwekha Homar) has chosen as a sample so investigate according perspective, then, percentage pragmatic are specified. Apart from introduction, conclusion, appendix, list references, study comprises sections. First section deals w...

Various views exist on the kind of meaning that the exhaustivity component of clefts corresponds to, and therefore on the status that clefts have when exhaustivity is violated. In particular, two semantic theories have recently been spelled out in some detail. According to Velleman et al. (2012), (1) carries the presupposition that it’s not the case that both the truck and something else are bl...

The researcher has analyzed the concept of Colonialism Discourse in a dystopian novel titled Red Rising using qualitative method to gather data. Othering is used explain colonialism discourse novel. Focault (1990) theory describe how othering happened novel’s background story. Beside othering, presupposition also For presupposition, Yule (1996) which six types presupposition. purpose this resea...

Abstract This note presents challenge cases for prominent pragmatic responses to the proviso problem. I offer examples of uses conditionals if $\psi,\,\phi_{P}$ ψ , ϕ P that seem commit speaker unconditionally presupposit...