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Good morning everyone, Welcome to our presentation.

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Today I am here to present to you about Chapter 4: presupposition and Entailment

I’ve divided my presentation into three parts. Trúc start with…

Let's go on with the next one which is the Lexical Presupposition


The use of one form with its asserted meaning is conventionally interpreted with the presupposition that
another (non-asserted) meaning is understood.
This can be seen in the following example:
You make a mistake again
Presupposed that She made a mistake before.
- Mary stopped running
Pr: Mary used to run
Next, the use of the structure with treats information as presupposed and is accepted as true by the listener
is for example "wh" question.
This kind of presupposition is called Structural Presupposition.
When we ask
Why did you buy the car?
We presuppose that the information after the question is necessarily true so die.
Moreover, a non-factive presupposition is assumed not to be a true verb like dreams, imagine, and pretend
indentify a non-factive presupposition.
An example is that she dreamed that she was rich. but
Pr: She was not rich.
The last type of presupposition is called counterfactual presupposition
which means what is presupposed is contrary to facts.
for example
If Trung had a sister, she could help him to do housework.
however at the time of utterance, this is not true, trung doesn't have a sister.
But what projection problem?
Ms. Thu will help you answer in the next section

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