İletişimin devamlılığı için iş birliği içerisinde olmak ne kadar önemliyse konuşurlar arasındaki ortak bağlamın, deneyimlerin ve genel geçer bilgilerin varlığı da bir o önem taşımaktadır. Yazılı ya sözlü metnin akıcılığı sağlayabilmek arasında iletişimi sürdürebilmek karşılıklı sunulan bilginin varsayılan düzeyde olması gerekmektedir. tarafları ön kabul gerektiren bu bilgiler önvarsayımları olu...

This paper investigates semantic and pragmatic presupposition in Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) and enhances the pragmatic perspective of presupposition in DRT. In doing so, it draws attention to the need to account for agent presupposition (i.e. both speaker and hearer presupposition) when dealing with pragmatic presupposition. Furthermore, this paper links this pragmatic conception of ...

I present a new observation with regard to the felicity of using even: There is no apparent focus/QUD congruence for even-sentences. For example, Even Mary came cannot be used answer question like who or was unlikely come. Instead, felicitous use address issues how successful exhibition was, enthusiastic people were, urgent matter etc. Thus propose that even QUD-sensitive, always contextually s...

This paper offers a critical analysis of Stalnaker’s work on presupposition (Stalnaker 1973, 1974, 1979, 1999 and forthcoming). The paper examines two definitions of speaker presupposition offered by Stalnaker—the familiar common ground view, and the earlier, less familiar, dispositional account—and how Stalnaker relates this notion to the linguistic phenomenon of presupposition. Special attent...

The paper deals with empirical questions that come attached with a presupposition. In case that the presupposition is not true, there is no unambiguous direct answer. In such a case an adequate complete answer is a negated presupposition. Yet these simple ideas are connected with a bunch of problems. First, we must distinguish between a pragmatic and semantic presupposition, and thus also betwe...

Van der Sandt’s algorithm for handling presupposition is based on a “presupposition as anaphora” paradigm and is expressed in the realm of Kamp’s DRT. In recent years, we have proposed a typetheoretic rebuilding of DRT that allows Montague’s semantics to be combined with discourse dynamics. Here we explore van der Sandt’s theory along the line of this formal framework. It then results that pres...

In this paper, we propose an experiment concerning presupposition selection in conditional sentences containing a presupposition trigger in the consequent. Many theories claim that sentences like if p, q q'-where q is the presupposition of the assertive component q'-have unconditional presuppositions, namely, they simply project q. Other theories suggest that these kinds of conditional sentence...