Presupposition As Found In Wonder Woman Movie: A Pragmatics Analysis

This research aims to identify the types of presuppositions and describe the meanings of presuppositions found in the Wonder Woman movie. The type of this research is descriptive qualitative. The data are examined in the form of words, sentences or utterances in English that contain types of presuppositions in the Wonder Woman movie script. The techniques of data collection used are observation and documentation. From the results of the data analysis, the writer found 118 data of presuppositions in the Wonder Woman movie. Based on Yule's theory (1996), the writer found 6 types of presuppositions, namely 55 (46.6%) data of existential presuppositions, 31 (26.3%) data of factive presuppositions, 11 (9.3%) data of lexical presuppositions, 17 (14.4%) data of structural presuppositions, 2 (1.7%) data of non-factive presuppositions, and 2 (1.7%) data of counterfactual presuppositions