Abstract:
This research deals with the analysis of pressuposition triggers in the
political articles of The Jakarta Post. This research applied descriptive qulitative
method. The objectives of the study were to figure out the types of pressuposition
triggers are use in the political articles of The Jakarta Post and to find out the
dominant type of pressuposition triggers in the political article of the Jakarta
Post. The source of the data was The Jakarta Post newspaper online edition. The
data were taken from seven articles from seven different week edition. The
researcher took the data start from in the first week of January 2
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February 1
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. The method used in the data was content analysis. The data
were analyzes based on the types of pressuposition triggers, there were factive
items, changes of states verbs, verbs of judging, counterfactual verbs,
conventional items, iteratives. There were 72 occurances of pressupositio triggers
in the political articles of The Jakarta Post. Based on the analysis there were six
types of pressuposition triggers namely: factive items 31 (43,0%), changes of state
verbs 2 (2,7%), verbs of judging 27 (37,5%), counterfactual verbs 4 (5,5%),
conventional items 2 (2,7%), iteratives 7 (9,7 %)
