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Pragmatic Presupposition and Its Functions

Yang Wang

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Presupposition is a pragmatic phenomenon and one of the important topics in pragmatic research,playing an important communicative role in language communication. The paper briefly discusses and analyses the basic features of pragmatic presupposition and its various pragmatic functions in speech communication, combined with the text analysis, information focus and style effect.

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Presupposition is a pragmatic phenomenon and one of the important topics in pragmatic research,playing an important communicative role in language communication. The paper briefly discusses and analyses the basic features of pragmatic presupposition and its various pragmatic functions in speech communication, combined with the text analysis, information focus and style effect.

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Presupposition is a pragmatic phenomenon and one of the important topics in pragmatic research,playing an important communicative role in language communication. The paper briefly discusses and analyses the basic features of pragmatic presupposition and its various pragmatic functions in speech communication, combined with the text analysis, information focus and style effect.

Key concepts: Presupposition, Focus (optics), Linguistics, Phenomenon, Style (visual arts), Pragmatics, Computer science, Psychology

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