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1. Pragmatics Presupposition and
Entailment
Prepared By:
Zainab Asghar

2. Introduction
Pragmatics

3. It includes inference, presupposition,
Pragmatic implicature and Entailment.
Inference and presupposition
We infer the "total meaning" of an
utterance based on all the information we
have available in the moment we hear it.
Our presuppositions lead us to formulate
utterances whose meaning we assume
can be inferred by listeners - in other
words, that can be deduced by those we
communicate with. After all, we all want to
be understood.

4. Example
Bob: Are you coming to the party?
Jane: You know, I'm really busy.

5. Pragmatic implicature and Entailment
If inference is what listeners do to interpret the
meaning of utterances, implicature is the
process through which speakers include
meaning beyond the literal message in an
utterance.
Entailment is a related but distinct phenomenon
and it belongs in the realm of semantics,
because it is not affected by the context. If one
proposition entails another, this works in the
same way as a logical condition of the form IF
X THEN Y.

6. Example
Bob: Are you coming to the party?
Jane: You know, I'm really busy, but I'll come

8. So it is concluded that in Pragmatics,
Presupposition, Entailment and
Implicature are helpful to understand a
text .
These all follow each other and give the
accurate meaning of text so that a reader
could understand it well.
Conclusion