PRESUPPOSITION TRIGGERS IN ARTICLES OF TOASTMASTERS MAGAZINE

Hardiyanti, Rizki. Registration Number: 8156112091. Presupposition Triggers in Articles of Toastmasters Magazine. A Thesis, English Applied Linguistics Study Program, Post Graduate School, State University of
Medan, 2017. The objectives of the study were to find out: (1) the types of presupposition triggers in articles of Toastmasters magazine (2) the process of presupposition
triggers in articles of Toastmasters magazine (3) the reasons for using presupposition triggers in articles of Toastmasters magazine. The study was qualitative. The source of data was Toastmasters magazine online website. The data of the study were the words, phrases, clauses or sentences, which triggered the presupposed meaning in articles. The data were identified, analyzed, and
categorized based on Yule (1996) Levinson’s theory (1983). The findings of the study showed that: (1) fourteen presupposition triggers were suggested by Yule
(1996) and Levinson (1983) found in articles namely: definite description, factive verb, implicative verb, change of state verbs, verbs of judging, counter factual
verbs, conventional item, iterative item, cleft construction, questions, adverbial clause, comparative sentence, counterfactual conditional clause and nonrestrictive clause. In addition, additive particles, discourse particles, manner adverbs, quantifiers and discourse connectives were the new presupposition
triggers found in this study. (2) The process of presupposition triggers in articles of Toastmasters magazine was realized by constancy under negation test. (3) The reasons why the authors used presupposition triggers in articles of Toastmasters magazine were a) describe an experience, event, person, or place, b) present an
opinion or balanced argument, c) compare and contrast, d) provide information, e) offer suggestion and f) offer advice. Based on the findings, the use of factive
verbs, which was found the most dominant occurrence among the other triggers, was signed the way of authors to present more their background assumption or information based on fact. This aimed to present opinion or balanced argument in articles. Some suggestions are directed to those who are interested in understanding presupposition in any discourse especially journalistic text.