PRESUPPOSITION AND IMPLICATURE/MAXIM

PRAGMATICS is the study of what the _______ _____

PRESUPPOSITION is what a speaker or writer ______ that the ______ of the message already knows.

The property of pressuposition is generally described as _______ _____ ____

Presuppositions seem to be tied to particular words - or aspects of surface structure in general. We shall call such ___________ ________ items presupposition triggers.

Presuppositions seem to be tied to particular words - or aspects of surface structure in general. We shall call such presupposition-generating linguistic items presupposition _____.

Apart from entailment, the presupposition of an utterance remains the same under its ______ and ________.

____ __________ _________ make your conversational contribution such as is required, at the stage at which it occurs, by the accepted purpose or direction of the talk exchange in which you are engaged.

Whenever we are in the conversation, we obey the cooperative principle without ___________

The maxim of quantity: Make your contribution as __________ as is required (for the current purposes of the exchange).

What is the presupposition of this sentene?

"They started arguing again."

• They liked arguing.

• They hadn't argued before until then.

• They had argued before.

• They have just started arguing.