This paper 1 deals with presuppositional effects by the temporal discourse markers after and before within a multi-sentence discourse. By presenting data wrt. implicitly expressed causal relations, the proposal by Lascarides and Oberlander (1993) is criticised and a formalisation of the discourse usage of the two temporal connectives is given by extending van der Sandt’s (1992) approach to pres...

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...

the term ‘spam’ addresses unsolicited emails sent in bulk; therefore, the term‘financial fraud spam’ refers to unwanted bulk emails in which different tricks and techniques areemployed to swindle money from the recipients. estimates show that more than 80% of worldwideemail traffic in 2011 was spam. it should be noted that while the number of daily spam emails in2002 was 2.4 billion, this numbe...

The aim of this study is to examine the presuppositions that occur between teachers and students during classroom interactions. employed a qualitative descriptive approach describe students’ interactions in how can be understood well their data were collected through recording method Descriptive analysis was used categorize interpret data, lead identification five types presuppositions: existen...

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...

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...