Glossary

Constancy under negation the feature of the presupposition of an utterance by virtue of which it remains constant or true even when the statement is negated.

Defeasibility of presupposition a term used to describe the characteristic of presupposition of being cancelled.

Entailment a meaning that is always inherent in the meaning of a sentence so that the sentence cannot be true without its entailment being true. For example, one cannot say „Amrit killed Billy‟ without entailing that Billy died.

Pragmatic presupposition the presupposition of an utterance triggered by the context and can be cancelled where it does not conform with the speaker‟s or hearer‟s knowledge about the world.

Presupposition the propositions that the interlocutors take for granted prior to the conversation and, therefore, never directly assert them.

Projection problem the problem of a simple structure losing its presupposition on becoming a part of a more complex structure.

Presupposition trigger the linguistic item which generates speaker‟s background assumptions on the basis of which the hearer comprehends the speaker‟s utterance. For example, the lexical items such as realise, regret, your house, manage, etc.

Proposition the part of the meaning of an utterance which encodes knowledge about the world, i.e., the persons and things referred to in the statement and the activities and situations they are involved in.

Semantic presupposition the presupposition of an utterance triggered by the linguistic items. It is

Weblinks

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References

Grundy, Peter. Doing Pragmatics. 2nd ed. London: Arnold, 2000. Print. Horn, L. R. On the Semantic Properties of the Logical Operators in English. Mimeo: Indiana University Linguistics Club, 1985. Print. Kartunnen, L. “Presuppositions of Compound Sentences.” Linguistic Inquiry 4 (1973): 169-93. Print. Levinson, Stephen C. Pragmatics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Print. Stalnaker, R. C. “Pragmatic Presuppositions.” Semantics and Philosophy. Eds. M. K. Munitz and P. K. Unger. New York: New York University Press, 1974. 197-214. Print.