Pressuposition Triggers in the political articles of

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 th th th

, 9 , 17 , 26 and th th th February 1 , 9 , 16 . 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 %)