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A STUDY ON PRESUPPOSITION IN ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACKS OF “FROZEN II”
Alfonsa Vina Kanasya

Last modified: 2021-11-24

Abstract


Pragmatics deals with how context affects meaning. One of the topics in pragmatics is presupposition, which describes speakers’ assumptions that the listeners understand certain information from their utterances or a situation that must exist for an utterance to be appropriate. This paper analyzes the presupposition phenomena in the original soundtracks from the movie “Frozen II”. The research aims to answer the most frequent type of presupposition used in the original soundtrack of “Frozen II”. This study employed a document analysis and the data analysis techniques included categorizing the presupposition-triggers into the types of presupposition based on their definition in order to find the most frequent type of presupposition. The data came from the songs’ lyrics in the original soundtrack of “Frozen II” and there were total 8 songs in total that were analyzed. The result shows that the most occurring type is existential presupposition from various presupposition-triggers such as definite description, definite articles, and possessive pronouns. This research shows that pragmatics can be learned through various media, including songs. The media will help English learners in understanding linguistics study.


Keywords


pragmatics; presupposition; presupposition triggers; original soundtrack

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