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Presupposition and the Education of Korean Semantics

  • Korean Semantics
  • 2022, 78(), pp.146-171
  • Publisher : The Society Of Korean Semantics
  • Research Area : Humanities > Korean Language and Literature
  • Received : October 29, 2022
  • Accepted : December 7, 2022
  • Published : December 30, 2022

Choi Yoonji 1

1인하대학교

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ABSTRACT

This paper critically reviews the descriptions of presupposition found in the previous semantic-pragmatic textbooks and makes some suggestions for improvement. Based on the analysis of several textbooks selected, the notions of presupposition and presupposition triggers, especially the embedded clauses, dealt with in those books were examined and their problems were discussed. While the notions of presupposition are largely divided into a semantic presupposition and a pragmatic presupposition, depending on the textbooks, some of them focused on the former exclusively, and even if both were dealt with, the notions were somewhat different according to the books. Based on the relevance to linguistic expressions, we proposed to exclude the type of presupposition related to the appropriate conditions for speech act and to expand the contents related to the common ground of the speaker and the hearer, among various notions of pragmatic presupposition. In terms of the presupposition triggers, it was claimed to be important to consider the different forms of the complement clause chosen by the predicate, and it was shown to be dangerous to generalize that the embedded clause itself, such as an adnominal or adverbial clause, provokes a presupposition, but rather the properties of the entire sentence are claimed to be considered together

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