Presupposition ad Entailment

DOI

10.2991/icemct-17.2017.35How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Presupposition; Entailment; Negation test; Information focus

Abstract

This paper aims at the distinction of Presupposition and Entailment. Since various kinds of definition misused confusedly. The distinction is always a hot question for discussing. The author tries to distinguish the presupposition and entailment from semantic scope by negation test. The traditional negation test seems to have its limitation for the semantic negation has its function scope. Therefore, the information focus is introduced to make a distinction between semantic presupposition and entailment of a multi-elements sentence. Through analyzing preposition and entailment of English sentence, the semantic and pragmatic essence can be easily acquired in order to promote the English Communication Competence. However, some sentence pattern, such as the Imperative sentence, is needed to do further research.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yuanli Fan
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - Presupposition ad Entailment
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 4th International Conference on Education, Management and Computing Technology (ICEMCT 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 162
EP  - 166
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icemct-17.2017.35
DO  - 10.2991/icemct-17.2017.35
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