Institusion
Universitas Bung Hatta
Author
Ririn, Stepimorisa
Yusrita, Yanti
Nova, Rina
Subject
PR English literature
Datestamp
2023-08-01 06:54:56
Abstract :
This research aims at identifying and classifying presuppositions as reflected in
the drama Pygmalion, and portraying intention of each presupposition.
Presupposition is a notion or assumption that speakers have in their utterances
when they are speaking. In analyzing data of this study, the writer uses qualitative
method. Some theories are employed to analyze the data, such as Yule (1996) and
Cutting (2002). The results of the research show that six types of presupposition
that are categorized by Yule the writer found: (1) existential presupposition, (2)
factive presupposition, (3) lexical presupposition, (4) structural presupposition,
(5) non-factive presupposition and (6) counterfactual presupposition, but
counterfactual presupposition is more dominant in the data. Afterwards,
existential presupposition and lexical presupposition dominate the data. Three
kinds of context are also influential to analyze the data, they are; situational
context, background knowledge context and co-textual context.
Keywords: presupposition, types of presupposition, intention, context