An Analysis Of The Function Of Pragmatic Presuppositions And Presupposition Triggers In American Corporation Profiles

The concept of presupposition was first put forward by Frege in the field of philosophy and later came into linguistics. With the deepening of the study on presupposition, scholars found out that presuppositions are related to some particular words or aspects of surface structures. That means some particular words and structures can trigger presuppositions. So the presupposition which contains special intention of the leading part in the communication can be viewed as a strategy to convey the presupposed information to the other part with the employment of its characteristics such as implicity, subjectivity, variety, and non-controversy.This thesis aims to analyze the language style of American corporation profiles and the way how they use presuppositions under American cultural background from the perspective of the function of pragmatic presuppositions and presupposition triggers, by which means to further explore the effective communication ways for the English profiles of Chinese corporations with the help of the quantitative analysis and the qualitative analysis. And the thesis summarizes the ways how to use the functions of pragmatic presuppositions and presupposition triggers with the help of Ant Conc and the analysis of the 135 American corporation profiles in Fortune Global 500 Corporations from the perspective of the function of presuppositions, which will be helpful in improving the ability of the employment of presuppositions during the writing process of English profiles of Chinese corporations.