PRESUPPOSITION IN ARTICLE OF “SOOMPI” NEWS AND GOSSIP SITE

Ardiyani, Ferista Setya. 2020. Presupposition In Article Of “Soompi” News And
Gossip Site. Final project, English Study Program, Faculty of
Languange and Arts Education, University
PGRI Semarang.
Advisor 1 : Dr. Senowarsito, M.Pd., Advisor 2 : Dra. T. Sri Suwarti,
M.Pd.
Keywords : presupposition, pragmatics, Soompi’s website
This final project presents an analysis of presupposition found on the
Soompi website’s article. The main objective of this final project is 1) to identify
the types of presupposition found on Soompi's website. 2) to describe the meaning
of presupposition found in Soompi's article. 3) To find out the contribution of the
article in “Soompi News and Gossip Site” to pragmatics teaching. The researcher
conducts qualitative research that uses articles on the website as the data.
The result of this final project shows (1) there are many types of
presupposition found in articles on Soompi's website. 6 articles that retrieved from
June 23 till June 30, 2020, found 4 types of presupposition those are
counterfactual presupposition (1 utterance), existential presupposition (2), lexical
presupposition (2), and structural presupposition (2). (2) the meaning of those
utterances is to express something that the speaker assumes to be the case prior to
their utterances. (3) the contribution of using the articles in Soompi's website to
pragmatics teaching is teacher/lecturer can use those articles in this website as
creative media for pragmatics learning especially presupposition with the purpose
to increase student interest.
The suggestion and the conclusion from the research are the writer found
articles that contain some types in presupposition and nowadays the
teacher/lecturer can use anything that is interesting while teaching presupposition.
One of them is using a website on the internet as a creative media.