An Analysis of Presupposition Used in Frozen

Emad Khalili¹

1) MA in General Linguistics-

IOI Code : XADZ-BHBAE
Publication : The Second international conference on modern researches in management and humanities(mphconf.com)
Abstract :
    Background: 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. Purpose: the researcher expect that this paper can be useful both in learning as an additional science in learning pragmatics, especially presupposition. Method: the researcher used descriptive research method, because all the data comes from the animation and the data is reviewed based on theory of presuppositions. Presuppositions in Frozen (2013) are taken from the conversations of characters in the animation, and then analyzed by the theory proposed by Yule (1996) about the type Presuppositions to find out what types are often used in Frozen. Result: the researcher has found all six types of presupposition which applied in Frozen, they are 23 existential (23%), 18 lexical (18%), 25 structural (25%), 12 factive (12%), 16 counterfactual (16%) and 6 non factive (6%). Conclusion: The type of presupposition mostly used is Structural Presupposition and the less is Factive Presupposition because structural is the assumption that part of a structure contains information being treated as already known and its mark by WH-questions. In Frozen, most of the conversation and utterances are stated by the form of WH-questions.

Keywords : presupposition animation frozen structural presupposition yule (1996)