Presupposition and the Construction of Poetic Texts

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1、维普资讯http://www.cqvip.comMar．2006’Volume4，No．3(SerialNolOUS-ChinaForeignLanguage，ISSN1539-8080，USAPreSupp0sitiOnandtheConstructionofPoeticTextsLangChert’砼Sun”ZhefiangUniversityofTechnologyAbstract：Presupposition，whichhasbeenprofoundlyefectivelymanipulatedin

2、surveyingmeaningsofdiscoursesbysemanticistsandpmgrnatists，referstotheimplicitinfommtionofpropositionembeddedinasentenceorutterance．Thepaperisatemptedtoinvestigatethefunctionsofpresuppositionsintheconstructionofpoetictexts．Keywords：presuppositionpoetictexts

3、construction1．IntroductionTheconcept‘'presupposition'’wasraisedbytheeminentGermanlo~cianFregein1892．Presuppositionreferstotheimplicitinformationofpropositionembeddedinasentenceorutterance．Scholarsinbothphilosophicalandlinguisticdomainsshowpeculiarinteresti

4、npresuppositionowingtoitsroleinconstructionofmeanings．Particularlyinlinguistics，semanticsandpragmaticsattachmutualimportancetoitsresearch．Thefollowingpaperisatemptedtotouchuponpresupposition’sroleinconstructingpoetry．2．ABriefLiteratureReviewOfPresuppositio

5、nResearchersinitiatedpresupposition’soperatingmechanismwithdefinitedescriptions．Frege0892)postulatesthatspeakersmustbearspecificreferentwhileusingonenouninhisassertion．Forexample，whenthespeakeruters‘'Keplerdiedinmisery'’，thenoun‘'Kepler'’shouldhaveitsexist

6、ingentityinthephysicalworld,withtheexistenceof“apersoncalled‘Kepler’”asitsprecondition．Thatis。‘'Keplerdiedhimisery'’presupposes‘'theexistenceofapersoncalledKepler'’．Evenifwesetanegationtotheproposition‘‘Keplerdidn’tdieinmisery'’，thepresuppositionstatestill

7、remains．Inlogicalsemantics，philosophers，fromtheviewpointoftruthcondition，deempresumptionasaspecializedentailmentcondition．Asfarasthosetwosentencesoruterances(PandQ)establishtherelationshipofpresuposition，twoprerequisitesareneeded：(1)IfPistrue，thenQisalso．t

8、rue；(2)IfPisuntrue，Qremainstobetrue．Onsatiatingthosetwoconditio璐，QcanbeassertedtobeP’spresupposition．Inconsequentialresearches，quiteafewlinguists(Chomsky,1971；Keenan,1971；Jackendoft,1972；Miao，2001)discovertha