An analysis of presupposition used in The Reader movie

Emad Khalili¹

1) MA in General Linguistics-

IOI Code : XAAA-BGGAE
Publication : The 4th International Conference on Modern Approaches to Research in the Humanities(4achconf.com)
Abstract :
    Presupposition is one of the topics in semantic study and Pragmatics. In this paper the researcher is more concerned about the discussion presupposition in pragmatic studies, where presupposition is in one s mind about everything that exists in the world. In this paper the researcher use descriptive research method, because all the data comes from the movie and the data is reviewed based on theory of presuppositions. Presuppositions in The Reader movie are taken from the conversations of characters in the movie, and then analyzed by the theory proposed by Yule (1996) about the type Presuppositions to find out what types are often used in The Reader movie. Finally the writer has found all six types of presupposition which applied in The Reader movie, they are 12 existential (17%), 19 structural (27%), 14 factive (20%), 16 counter factual (23%), 6 non- factive (9%) and 3 lexical (4%). From this paper also, the researcher expect that this paper can be useful both in learning as an additional science in learning pragmatics, especially presupposition.

Keywords : presupposition movie the reader structural presupposition yule (1996)