LINGUISTIC PRESUPPOSITION AS A PRAGMATIC PROBLEM
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Keywords: Presupposition, Logic, Pragmatics, Implicature, Speech Acts, Inference, AssertionAbstract
Presupposition has long history in philosophy of language and linguistic semantics. Recent works in linguistics have given a central place to the notion of presupposition. It is studied as an essential aspect in providing semantic as well as pragmatic representations. Resultantly, presupposition has obtained a significant place in linguist’s, logician’s and philosopher’s spheres of interest. It has been studied as a kind of unspoken information that accompanies an utterance. Moreover, presuppositions perform a significant role in our understanding of how context and background determine proper interpretation of any utterance. They are studied as conditions which must be fulfilled for an expression to be interpreted meaningfully.
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