Presuppositions Found in Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour Visionaries: Michelle Obama Interview

Afrilia, Chantika Poppy (2023) Presuppositions Found in Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour Visionaries: Michelle Obama Interview. Diploma thesis, Universitas Andalas.

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Abstract

This research examines the semantic presuppositions found in one of Oprah Winfrey's talk shows entitled Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour Visionaries: Michelle Obama Interview. In this research, the researcher uses descriptive qualitative method in interpreting the data. This study aims to find out how Oprah Winfrey and Michelle Obama use presuppositions during the interview, also analyzes the types of presuppositions and their triggers. The researcher used George Yule's presuppositions theory (1996) to analyze the types of presuppositions, as well as Karttunen's presupposition triggers theory (1971) to investigate the triggers of presuppositions. From 42 data, only 4 of the 6 types of presuppositions were discovered, such as Existential Presuppositions (23), Factive Presuppositions (3), Lexical Presuppositions (11), and Structural Presuppositions (5). Furthermore, there are six types of triggers as the presuppositions appear, such as Definite Descriptions (23), Implicative Verbs (2), Factive Verbs (3), Change of State Verbs (7), Iteratives (2), WH-Questions (5). In conclusion, the type of presuppositions are dominated by Existential Presupposition and the types of presupposition triggers are dominated by Definite Descriptions. The type of presupposition that is not discovered in this study are Non-Factive Presuppositions and Counterfactual Presupposition. The results of this research are used as a reference to help other prospective researchers with the same topic. Besides that, it might also be able to add the latest information in the field of science studied. Keywords: presuppositions, semantics, types of presuppositions, presupposition triggers.

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