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1、AnAnalysisofPresuppositionTriggersinPoliticalSpeechesCONTENTSABSTRACT1摘要1ChapterOneINTRODUCTION2ChapterTwoLITERATUREREVIEW32.1StudiesonPresupposition32.1.1Philosophicalorigin32.1.2Semantic&Pragmaticpresupposition32.2StudiesonPresuppositionTriggers42.2.1Definition&Classification
2、s42.2.2Analysis4ChapterThreePRESUPPOSITIONTRIGGERSINPOLITICALSPEECHES53.1AnalysisofLexicalpresuppositiontriggers53.1.1Definitedescriptions53.1.2Verbclasses53.1.3Wordsofrepeatedmeaning63.2AnalysisofSyntacticpresuppositiontriggers63.2.1Temporalclauses63.2.2Cleftsentences63.2.3Que
3、stions6ChapterFourCONCLUSION7WorksCited82.1StudiesonPresuppositionPresuppositionisnotonlyaveryimportantissueinthelogicofnaturallanguage,butalsoanimportanttopicinthephilosophicalstudyoflanguage.ItwasputforwardbyGottlobFrege,aGermanmathematicianandlogician.Inthephilosophyoflangua
4、ge,thestudyofpresuppositionhaslargelybeenconfinedtodebatesaboutthenatureofreferenceandreferringexpressions.Inlinguistics,ontheotherhand,theinvestigationofpresuppositionisconcernedwithamuchwiderrangeofphenomena,centeringaroundthegeneraldebatesabouttheinteractionanddivisionoflabo
5、rbetweensemanticsandpragmatics.Forexample,“ThequeenofEnglandisold.”and”Englandhasaqueen.”Whenweanalyzethepresuppositionofthesetwosentencesfromsemanticpresuppositionandpragmaticpresupposition,wecangetthat”Englandhasaqueen”isthesemanticpresupposition,regardlessofthevalueofexisten
6、ceandtheproposition’strueandfalse.However,fromtheaspectofpragmaticpresupposition,presuppositionreferstopremiserelationsofrelief,attitudeandintentionaboutcontextandspeakobject.Forexample,thesentenceof“Pleaseopenthedoor”,whichpresupposes“thedoorisopen”,“thespeakerthedoorcanbeclos
7、ed”,“thelistenerhastheabilitytoclosethedoor”and“thespeakerhastherighttoorderthelistenertoclosethedoor”.Looseofanyoneoftermswillmakeitdifficulttosetupasentence.2.2StudiesonPresuppositionTriggersIntheanalysisofpresupposition,presuppositiontriggerisaveryimportantterm,thespecialwor
8、dtoproducepresupposition.Forexample,“Tomislateagain”,t
