The Use of Presupposition in EFL Speaking Class

Kurniawan, Sandi and Prihantoro, Prihantoro and Edy, Sarwo (2025) The Use of Presupposition in EFL Speaking Class. Sarjana thesis, Institut Agama Islam Negeri Curup.

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This paper discusses the use of presupposition in EFL speaking classes with the aim of identifying the types of presupposition and the implied meanings contained within them. The subject of this study were the Speaking course in the English Study Program at IAIN Curup, consisted of six Speaking classes. This research is a language research with qualitative descriptive approach. The data were collected through observation. The data were recorded and then transcribed for further analysis regarding the types of presuppositions and the implied meanings of the presuppositions. The research revealed five types of presupposition used by both lecturers and students, namely Existential, Factive, Lexical, Structural, and Non-factive presuppositions. Interestingly, the researcher also identified a new composition of presupposition, which is referred to as Multi Presupposition. This new composition consists of four forms: Factive-Existential, Lexical-Existential, Structural-Existential, and Nonfactive-Existential presuppositions. The implied meanings of each presupposition type vary according to their linguistic structure, as outlined in Yule’s framework. However, the implied meanings found in the Multi Presupposition were discovered to be more complex and layered. These meanings reinforce and complement one another, resulting in a deeper and more nuanced interpretation of the utterances used in the speaking class.

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