An Analysis of Presupposition Used in Blade Runner

Abdollah mirzaei¹ Naser Abbasi² Nastaran Kiyanpour³ Tahereh Mirzaei⁴ Kheirollah Khodabandehloo⁵

1) Phd student of universal linguistics in Azad university of Zanjan Iran Email: 09192425920
2) -Phd student of universal linguistics in Azad university of Zanjan Iran Email:
3) Phd student of universal linguistics in Azad university of Zanjan Iran
4) Abhar health Center employee , Iran
5) master of Geology ,Iran

Publication : The 4th International Conference on Management and Humanities(4icmhconf.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 Blade Runner 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 Blade Runner movie. Finally the writer has found five types of presupposition applied in Blade Runner movie, they were 12 existential (27%), 15 structural (35%), 3 factive (7%), 9 counter factual (20%) and 5 lexical (11%). 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 Blade Runner Structural Presupposition Yule (1996).