ZJAWISKO PRESUPOZYCJI Z PUNKTU WIDZENIA TEORII AKTÓW MOWY
THE PHENOMENON OF PRESUPOSITION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF SPEECH ACTS THEORY

Summary/Abstract: The paper is an attempt to express the concept of Strawsonian presupposition in terms of speech act theory. A comparison of existing in pragmatics two concepts of presupposition: Strawsonian propositional presupposition with a presupposition asa preparatory condition ofillocutionary force, leads to the conclusion that both kinds of presuppositions are completely different. Whereas in the light of linguistic intuition, additionally based on Austin (1962), it might seem that only one kind of presuppositionsexists: the preparatory condi-tions. This means that a propositional presupposition presupposed by given sentence is reducible, in a sense, to a preparatory condition of the illocutionary act performed by utterance of the sentence. Such hypothesis is justified here by evokingsome examples of propositional presuppositions presupposed by sen-tences used to perform the elementary illocutionary acts of different types.

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