تحلیل لمطلقات الافتراض المسبق في نصوص صحفیة انكلیزیة

Abstract

The notion of presupposition and its triggers have been studied by many scholars, linguists and philosophers, but as far as the researcher knows, the investigation of presupposition triggers in journalistic texts has not been explored yet. Therefore, the present research tries to identify the main presupposition triggers used in English journalistic texts. It is hypothesized that there are many presupposition triggers in English journalistic texts. The steps to be followed in this study are exploring the concept of presupposition, investigating the semantic and pragmatic presupposition, and identifying the presupposition triggers used in the English journalistic texts according to a model proposed by the researcher based on Karttunen (n.d.), cited in Levinson 1983:181-184, and Yule 1996: 28. The study is designed to the presupposition triggers of six randomly selected English journalistic texts. These texts have been sampled from six different national and regional English newspapers representing a range of political and regional differences.