A Study of Presupposition in The Legend of Lady Long Neck by James Lee

This study focuses on analyzing presupposition in a novelette. The author
chose a novelette entitled The Legend of Lady Long Neck by James Lee. This
study aims to find out the types of presupposition and the projection problem of
presupposition. This research uses descriptive-qualitative research design. It is
used because this study only analyses and describes what is found in the source of
data related to the research problem. The researcher found the first problem to
explain the meaning of presupposition in each sentence that uttered by a speaker,
the second problem to explain the projection problems for presupposition in a
novelette. The researcher found 35 data that contained 5 of 6 types of
presupposition in The Legend of Lady Long Neck by James Lee, those are 24
existential presupposition, 1 factive presupposition, 1 lexical presupposition, 6
structural presupposition, 3 counterfactual presupposition.