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A Linguistic Study Of Presupposition In Hart And Kaufman’S Play “You Can’T Take It With You”, Asst. Prof. Nadya Khairy Muhammed Said, Asst. Inst. Zainab Faiz Jasim

Midad AL-Adab Refereed Quarterly Journal

As a kind of linguistic study, the study of presupposition in the drama is one of the captivating topics to explore, because of the capability of this topic to make people perceive the presupposition differently. Presupposition is one of the most important concepts in linguistics. It refers to the implicit inferences made in communication between people. These inferences are necessary to understand the utterances correctly. The research particularly endeavors to focus on the linguistic constructions that activate presupposition. To this stage, it aims at: analyzing and identifying the types of presupposition, and the forms of presupposition triggers employed in the …