Presupposition in Several Headlines of Kekon Magazine

Abstract

The title of the study is (Presupposition in Several Headlines of Kekon Magazine). The reason behind choosing the topic is that little research has been done on the journalistic analysis of headlines in the context of pragmatic phenomena, in particular about presuppositions. The significance of conducting this study is that it is a text analysis that connects both aspects of language and literature, pragmatics and journalism, and shows how they reflect on one another. The research is within the pragmatic linguistics and literary pragmatics. The data of our research are some newspaper headlines in Kekon magazine. The number of received headlines is about (62) headlines in (21) editions of Kekon Magazine. Suppose that there is a presupposition as a pragmatic phenomenon in journalistic headlines; the research aims to prove the hypothesis of the research and we try to prove that presupposition exists as a pragmatic phenomenon in journalistic headlines. In this study, several journalistic headlines have been analyzed based on the descriptive analytical method which is embodied as an essential method in different levels and fields of linguistic and literary research. The study consists of three sections and the conclusion. The first section discusses the concept of presupposition and pragmatic presupposition, and then the importance and types of presuppositions are discussed. In the second section, journalism and journalistic language are presented, as well as articles, then headlines, principles, conditions, language, techniques, and writing styles of headlines are presented. In the third section which is a practical section, the presuppositions within the headlines of the "Kekon magazine" are shown, and finally, the results and a list of references are provided.