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Presupposition (Group 3)

Overview

Members

• Katharina
• Caterina
• Daniela

Short description of the topic

There are endless ways of communicating. It takes place through language, the appearance of a person, animals communicate, music has the power to communicate and of course literature and even plants communicate. Usually we take a lot of knowledge for granted, such as Germany has a female Bundeskanzler or even historical events that have become part of our cultural memory and are therefore taken as common knowledge. Due to our topic communication via language in will be the aim of our group. We will deal with a part of semantics that is called formal semantics. This is a branch of linguistics that approaches meaning using the notion of truth. For presuppositions truth /falsity is important in terms of the relation between sentences. This means that the truth or falsity of the second sentence (the presupposed sentence) is implied by the truth or falsity of the first sentence

Examples

References and links

References

• Meyer, Paul Georg. 2002.Synchronic English Linguistics-An Introduction. Tübingen: Narr Studienbücher.

Links

Presupposition

Our e-learning objects

Our wiki pages

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Our podcasts

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Our materials for an interactive whiteboard

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Our pictures

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  Kitty, Katharina's cat

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  Dani's favorite sunset

Our exercises

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