A STUDY OF PRESUPPOSITIONS IN HYPNOTIC LANGUAGE BY DOUG O'BRIEN IN DOUG O'BRIEN HYPNOSIS

ABSTRACT

Firdausi, A. 2015. A Study of Presuppositions in Hypnotic Language Used by Doug O’Brien in Doug O’Brien Hypnosis. Thesis. English Study Program of Faculty of Social and Cultural Sciences. University of Trunojoyo Madura. Advisor: Dr. Masduki, M.Pd.

Nowadays, hypnosis becomes a trend in variety of media types, ranging from electronic media and print media. One important element in hypnosis is the language itself. The language used in hypnosis is called as hypnotic language. Therefore, because of the wide implementation of hypnotic language in daily life, the researcher used the hypnotic language as the source of data. In this study, the writer researched hypnotic language used by Doug O’Brien who is one of famous hypnotizers in the world. The purposes of this study was to identify the types of presuppositions found in hypnotic language used by Doug O’Brien in Doug O’Brien Hypnosis and to explain the contribution of the presupposition for the speaker’s communicative purpose.
The hypnotic language has several patterns and one of the most powerful pattern is presupposition. Presupposition is a knowledge that is taken by the speaker to the common ground of participants in conversation. According to Yule, there are six types of presuppositions, they are existential presupposition, factive presupposition, lexical presupposition, structural presupposition, nonfactive presupposition and counter factual presupposition.
This study was conducted by qualitative research design. The data were taken from hypnotic language used by Doug O’Brien. The research instrument in this study was the researcher herself. Besides, content analysis was used in data collection. The data collection was done simultaneously with data analysis. Interactive model analysis was used in data analysis though several steps. They were data reduction, data display and conclusion.
The results of this study were, first, all types of presuppositions existed in hypnotic language used by Doug O’Brien. There were 12 existential presupposition, 9 factive presupposition, 4 lexical presupposition, 2 structural presupposition, 2 non-factive presupposition and 1 counterfactual presupposition. Secondly, based on the analysis done by the writer, the presuppositions truly made important contribution in the speaker communicative purposes. The writer also concluded that the speaker used presuppositions to emphasize his suggestion to the target interlocutor.

Key Words: Presuppositions, Hypnotic language.