This statement presupposes that there is something that can be taken to make the economy develop. This presupposition classified as factive
presupposition because it uses the word ―know‖ to imply presuppositional fact. Barack Obam
a said: ―the fact that youre going to college is great.‖ This statement presupposes two things:
a There is fact that you are going to college.
b There is college.
The two presuppositions can be classified as existential presuppositions because it presupposes that there is something existing in the statement.
Since we know that there are obviously more than one participant making various sort of discussion, there will be any assumption in each speaker‘s mind
before saying, talking about something or even making arguments. Therefore, the writer decided to analyze some presuppositions existing in 2012 American
presidential debate which got the spotlight from people all over the world. The reason why the writer is really interested in analyzing the debate is
because the writer really wants to know and understand everything the candidates assumed in the debate. Moreover, In this analysis, the writer conducts a research
about discourse analysis by using pragmatic approach.
B. Focus of The Study
In the process of doing this research, the writer would like to restrict this research on a pragmatic study. According to the background of the study, this
research only analyzes presupposition and its types theory existing in the
dialogue of 2012 american presidential debate between Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney. The writer is going to do this research by analyzing the script of the
debate.
C. Research Question
In his research, the writer is eager to answer the following questions: 1.
How do presupposition statements appear in 2012 American presidential debate?
2. What types of presupposition do appear in the American presidential
debate?
D. Objective of The Study
Based on the research question above, as always, the objectives of study of this research are:
1. To find out statements which contain of presupposition in 2012
american presidential debate. 2.
To discover types of presupposition existing in 2012 American Presidential Debate.
E. Significance of The Study
This research is going to provide positive and beneficial knowledge of language study, especially pragmatics. This analysis is also
expected to be very advantageous for readers, especially linguistic
students, who are interested in learning presupposition and its types which usually can be found in a dialogue of certain debate. Its significances lay
on how to understand the contextual meaning, the intentionality of communication, and to comprehend what addresser exactly means in
communicating hisher ideas.
F. Research Methodology
1. Method of Study
Based on the research question and the objective of the study, the method implemented in this research is qualitative method. According
to Subroto, cultural studies or humanity studies tends to use qualitative method to describe and interpret the phenomenon in order to catch the
meaning of it.
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That is why the writer uses descriptive qualitative method in which the data of the selected dialogue on the debate is
described and analyzed by using presupposition theory preposed by George Yule.
2. Data Collecting technique
Technique of data collection which the nwriter uses in this research is bibliographica
l one. Subroto defines it as ―technique of using written sources in obtaining data‖. The written sources which are used and
chosen must reflect synchronical use of language. They could be
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D. Edi Subroto, Pengantar Metode Penelitian Linguistik Struktural, Surakarta: Sebelas Maret University Press 1992, p 4-6
magazines, news, literary works, book-reading, journal, compillation of bill etc.
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Linguistic data can be taken from sources of literature which its scope is limited according to its goal of research. Each datum which is
taken with its linguistic context must be accompanied with its sources code in every end of line. The relevant data are written in data cards
which have specific size.
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3. Data Analysis Technique
In this research, qualitative method is used in which it means that non-
statistical analysis is employed based on Goerge Yule‘s theory of presupposition. The steps of data analysis are as below:
1. Analyzing the dialogue by determining and selecting
presupposition and its types existing in the selected dialogue. 2.
The data that contain presupposition in variety of types are entered in the table and given ―double quotation mark.‖
3. Determining each type of presupposition in the mentioned data.
4. Concluding the result of the analysis by mentioning how
presupposition occur in the debate and what types of presupposition mostly appear in it.
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Edi Subroto, Pengantar Metode Penelitian Linguistik Struktural Surakarta: Surakarta LPP UNS and UNS Press, 2007, p.47
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Edi Subroto, ibid, p. 48
4. Unit Analysis
The data unit of this research is a transcript of dialogue taken from 2012 American presidential debate between Barrack Obama and Mitt
Romney.
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CHAPTER II THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
This chapter is written to convey several explanations and theories which are related and used for analyzing every single aspect about presupposition of
pragmatic in this research. There are several parts which are going to be explained in this chapter.
Discourse analysis is the next element of this chapter which is written. The reason why the writer tries to talk about discourse analysis here is because the
writer is going to analyze the script of 2012 american presidential debate, the second.
The second part is pragmatic which is absolutely involved in this research. The reason why the pragmatic study is included in this research is because the
writer is going to talk about the conversation between both candidates in the debate and its context. Moreover, pragmatic is a branch of linguistic that focuses
on the structure of a language as communication tool. The next one is presupposition. This part is the main point of this research since the writer is eager
to analyze the presupposition existing in the presidential debate. There will also be several types of presupposition. Because of having similar concept between
implicature and presupposition, it is better to explain the difference between
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implicature and presupposition in which the research limits its self and take position.
A. Relevant Research
The research that has ever been done is about presupposition. This research was done by Dona Rivai from Universitas Indonesia in 2000
which is titled Peranan Alat-Alat Kohesi dan Praanggapan dalam Mengikat Tema Lagu Cinta berbahasa Jerman. The purpose of the
research is to give cohesion tools to love song and to display coherence of love song from a singer Gaby Albrecht. The presupposition in this
research is used to make the meaning of the text clearer and more obvious.
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Different from the researches mentioned above, the writer of this research would like to analyze presupposition and its types in a
transcript of 2012 American Presidential Debate between Barrack Obama and Mitt Romney.
B. Discourse Analysis
