Sunday, December 19, 2010

PRESUPPOSITION

What a speaker (or writter) assumes is true or know by a listener (or reader).

 In a more general way, we design our linguistic messages on the basis of larg-scale assumptions about what our listeners already know.

For example:
  • If someone tells you your brother is waiting outside, there is an obvious presuppotion that you have a brother.

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