Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Presupposition

Semantic and Pragmatic Approaches to Presupposition

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摘要 Presupposition is widely studied in the field of linguistics nowadays while it was firstly put forward in philosophy.Early study ex amined it from semantic approach,which treated it as the relation between two propositions.In 1970s,it was found presupposition was also a pragmatic concept,which held that presupposition varied with context.The author holds that semantic approach can't solve all the com plex problems while it's the basic part about the issue.Only through the pragmatic approach can we study it dynamically. Presupposition is widely studied in the field of linguistics nowadays while it was firstly put forward in philosophy.Early study ex amined it from semantic approach,which treated it as the relation between two propositions.In 1970s,it was found presupposition was also a pragmatic concept,which held that presupposition varied with context.The author holds that semantic approach can't solve all the com plex problems while it's the basic part about the issue.Only through the pragmatic approach can we study it dynamically.

作者牛晓平

机构地区吉林大学珠海学院

出处《海外英语》 2012年第14期228-229,共2页 Overseas English

关键词 PRESUPPOSITION SEMANTIC APPROACH PRAGMATIC approac presupposition semantic approach pragmatic approach

分类号 H030 [语言文字—语言学]