A Pragmatic Analysis of Presupposition in Mata Najwa Talk Show “Politik Sarung Ma’ruf Amin

Abstract

This study investigates presupposition in Mata Najwa Talk Show “Politik Sarung Ma’ruf Amin” and aimed to finding the types of presupposition based on Yule’s theory and describing the truth meaning of presupposition based on context. The data were interpreted by using descriptive qualitative method. The result of the study showed 53 presupposition. 18 structural presuppositon with percentage 34%, 10 factive presupposition and counter factual presupposition with percentage 18,8%, 8 existential presupposition with percentage 15%, 4 nonfactive presupposition with percentage 7,5% and 3 lexical presupposition with percentage 5,6%. Finally, the findings showed all types of presupposition and get the truth meaning of the utterances in that talk show.