Presuppositions and the Meanings in The Late Late Show YouTube Channel

Abstract

This study examines the fundamental presumptions that speakers make before giving a speech, as shown in the speeches of James Corden, Will Ferrell, and Harry Styles on the talk show The Late Late Show. This analysis outlines the researcher’s objectives, specifically identifying and categorizing the sorts of presuppositions present in talk shows. The analysis used Yule’s theory (1996) about presuppositions, namely, existential presupposition, factive presupposition, lexical presupposition, structural presupposition, non-factive presupposition, and counterfactual presupposition. Using discourse analysis methods that produce are as follows; types of presuppositions that appear in The Late Late Show with a total of 476 data from speech on talk shows, with details: 334 existential presuppositions, 97 structural presuppositions, 28 factive presuppositions, 13 lexical presuppositions, 3 counterfactual presuppositions, and 1 non-factive presupposition. The researcher hope that the findings of this study can contribute to introducing presupposition as one of the most important aspects of pragmatic studies. For other researchers interested in the same field, presupposition analysis in in-depth studies with different subjects is expected to do more to obtain a more comprehensive interpretation.