User:HuaiC/sandbox

This will be the shared Sandbox for the article Presupposition: User:HuaiC/sandbox. HuaiC (talk) 19:00, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Huaichen's ideas

 * Revise section titled Presupposition in critical discourse analysis
 * This section of the article is not only confusing but shows some plagiarized work. I plan on doing some research into who Teun Adrianus van Dijk is and what his contributions to the study of presuppositions are about. If I find his research interesting and informational, then I will expand on this section in some way. If not, I might end up discussing with other Wikipedians on whether or not to delete this section altogether. My goal is not to delete this section but rather to improve it. For starters, I will attempt to fix the plagiarized sections and correct the outdated citations that are provided. HuaiC (talk) 19:47, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Provide basic descriptions for each presupposition trigger
 * Many of the presupposition triggers like Implicative verbs, Iteratives, Temporal clauses, and so on are missing a basic description as to what they are. The presupposition triggers of Definite descriptions and Factive verbs have a description. In order to maintain consistency and make the article more easy to read, I feel that all the presupposition triggers should have a basic description. To do this, I will consult my textbook from Language of Advertising as well as other reliable sources from the Rutgers Library. HuaiC (talk) 19:57, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Add section titled Power of presuppositions
 * I would love to include a new section to this article that discusses the practical aspects of presuppositions. What I mean by this is for the article to include some talk about how presuppositions relate to our daily lives in terms of communication and social norms. This section might make the article more interesting for the reader because they can better understand how relevant this topic is to their daily lives. To accomplish this, I will try to find some information from the reliable sources that I have listed below regarding this topic. HuaiC (talk) 21:02, 29 March 2019 (UTC)

Reliable sources

 * Abusch, Dorit. “Presupposition Triggering from Alternatives.” Journal of Semantics, vol. 27, no. 1, Oxford University Press, Aug. 2009, pp. 37–80, doi:10.1093/jos/ffp009. HuaiC (talk) 19:24, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Maier, Emar. “Reference, Binding, and Presupposition: Three Perspectives on the Semantics of Proper Names.” Erkenntnis, vol. 80, no. Supplement 2, Springer Netherlands, May 2015, pp. 313–33, doi:10.1007/s10670-014-9702-1. HuaiC (talk) 19:31, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Salmon, William. “Conventional Implicature, Presupposition, and the Meaning of Must.” Journal of Pragmatics, vol. 43, no. 14, Elsevier B.V., 2011, pp. 3416–30, doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2011.07.011. HuaiC (talk) 19:20, 29 March 2019 (UTC)
 * Sedivy, Julie., and Carlson, Greg N. Sold on Language How Advertisers Talk to You and What This Says About You. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. HuaiC (talk) 21:04, 4 April 2019 (UTC)

Week 11 article drafting

 * Presupposition triggers Section:
 * Revise original sentence: "A presupposition trigger is a lexical item or linguistic construction which is responsible for the presupposition."
 * Revised sentence: A presupposition trigger is a lexical item or linguistic construction which is responsible for the presupposition, and thus "triggers" it. HuaiC (talk) 20:39, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Add to Change of state verbs Sub-section:
 * Rename sub-section to Change of state or a continuation of a state verbs. HuaiC (talk) 21:24, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * With these presupposition triggers, the current unfolding situation is considered presupposed information. HuaiC (talk) 21:27, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Add to Iteratives Sub-section:
 * These types of triggers presuppose the existence of a previous state of affairs. HuaiC (talk) 16:20, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Add to Temporal clauses Sub-section:
 * The situation explained in a clause that begins with a temporal clause constructor is typically considered backgrounded information. HuaiC (talk) 21:18, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Add to Cleft sentences Sub-section:
 * Cleft sentence structures highlight particular aspects of a sentence and consider the surrounding information to be backgrounded knowledge. These sentences are typically not spoken to strangers, but rather to addressees who are aware of the ongoing situation. HuaiC (talk) 16:05, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Presupposition in critical discourse analysis Section:
 * Revise original sentence: "Critical discourse analysis (CDA) seeks to identify presuppositions of an ideological nature."
 * Revised sentence: Critical discourse analysis (CDA) is a broad study belonging to not one research category. It focuses on identifying presuppositions of an abstract nature from varying perspectives. HuaiC (talk) 01:32, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Reworded introduction to make it more understandable. HuaiC (talk) 01:35, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Revise original sentence: "CDA is critical, not only in the sense of being analytical, but also in the ideological sense."
 * Revised sentence: CDA is considered critical, not only in the sense of being analytical, but also in the ideological sense. HuaiC (talk) 17:54, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Not sure what this sentence means, so I'll just leave it pretty much as is. HuaiC (talk) 16:27, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Revise original sentence: "Van Dijk (2003) says CDA 'primarily studies the way social power abuse, dominance, and inequality' operate in speech acts (including written text)—'text and talk.'"
 * Revised sentence: Through the analysis of written texts and verbal speech, Van Dijk (2003) says CDA studies power imbalances existing in both the conversational and political spectrum. HuaiC (talk) 17:42, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Reworded direct quotes and simplified complexity of sentence. HuaiC (talk) 17:42, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Revise original sentence: "Van Dijk describes CDA as written from a particular point of view: 'dissendent research' aimed to 'expose' and 'resist social inequality.'"
 * Revised sentence: With the purpose of first identifying and then tackling inequality in society, Van Dijk describes CDA as a nonconformist piece of work. HuaiC (talk) 20:35, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Corrected misspelling and reworded direct quotes. HuaiC (talk) 01:35, 14 April 2019 (UTC)
 * References Section:
 * Remove Critical Discourse Analysis (http://www.discourses.org/OldArticles/Critical%20discourse%20analysis.pdf) because the link is outdated. HuaiC (talk) 20:25, 4 April 2019 (UTC)
 * This chapter has an archived copy (in the event that the original link to the website changes), and thus it is not necessary to remove this link now. HuaiC (talk) 20:21, 13 April 2019 (UTC)