Presupposition in Anies Baswedan with Stanford Humanities Center

Abstract

This study deals with the presupposition of Anies Baswedan’ statements in the interview with Stanford Humanities Center. The objective of this study were to find out the types of presupposition and to comprehend the presupposition of the selected uttered by Anie Baswedan. The source of data for this research were collected from the script of the interview, all the data related to the presupposition. The research design of this study was descriptive method. Technique of data collection used was documentary method where the data collected by categorizing and classifying the written document that has relation with the problem discussed. The steps in collecting data were transccribing the data, reading the script of the interview of Anies Baswedan with Stanford Humanities Center than underlining the selected utterances that has presupposition, classified them in each types of presupposition based on Yule’s theory. The results showed that in the interview there were all of the six types of presupposition, namely existensial, factive, lexical, structural, non-factive and counterfactual presupposition. It was found that Anies Baswedan presupposed 30 data or 51.7% of existensial presupposition. Then there were 15 data or 25.8% of factive presupposition. For lexical presupposition there were 7 data or 12.1%. Then 2 data or 3.4% for each structural, non-factive, and counterfactual presupposition.