Abstract
This research was intended to find out the types of presupposition in the character’s utterances of Beauty and the Beast movie script and describe the meaning of presupposition that are represented in the movie script. This research used a descriptive qualitative method, which was carried out by collecting, grouping, analyzing and interpreting the research data. The data in this research were the utterances of the characters in movie script containing presupposition. The data were collected through four steps: observation, taking note, data validation and setting them in tables. Based on the data analysis, it was found that 6 types of presupposition were used in the character’s utterances of the movie script. The most frequent type of presupposition used by the characters was existential presupposition with 26 data of 58 data found in this movie script. The second type of presupposition often used was factive presupposition with 9 data found in the data. Then, the third was lexical presupposition consisting of 8 data and the fourth was structural presupposition with the same number. The fifth type of presupposition used was non-factive presupposition with 4 data found in this research. The last type of presupposition used in this research was counter-factual presupposition with 3 data found in the movie script.
Highlights
This research investigated the presupposition in the Beauty and the Beast movie script
Presupposition terms are divided into six types, namely existential presupposition, factive presupposition, lexical presupposition, structural presupposition, non-factive presupposition, and counter-factual presupposition
Based on the analysis of data, it is found that the most frequent type of presupposition used by the characters in the movie was existential presupposition which was used 26 times of the total utterances used by the character
Summary
This research investigated the presupposition in the Beauty and the Beast movie script. This study aimed to find out the types of presupposition and describe the meaning of presupposition that are represented in that movie script. As stated by Yule (1996: 3) pragmatics is a study of speaker’s meaning. The definition above implies that in communication between speaker and listener, pragmatics is needed. In studying pragmatics, an intended meaning, assumption, purpose, goal and the kind of the actions will be understood. Presupposition is one of the important aspects in pragmatics which examines the speaker’s utterance since the speaker commonly communicates more meanings than it is said
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