Presupposition in the Poetry Collection "Kha'inat al-Shabah" [The Traitor of Resemblance] by Hassan Al-Salhabi: A Pragmatic Study

Abstract

This study aims to explore the presuppositions and identify their types in the diwan (poetry collection) Kha'inat Al-Shabah [The Traitor of Resemblance] by the Saudi poet Hassan Al-Salhabiin order to analyzing them pragmatically. Given the nature of the topic, the study is organized three preparatory parts and five analytical sections.  The introduction addresses the study's objectives, research problem, methodology, and structure, as well as literature review. The preface discusses the concept of presupposition, its definition in pragmatics, and its classification.  The core of the study consists of five analytical sections: the existential presupposition; the factual presupposition; the lexical presupposition; the structural presupposition; and the non-factual presupposition. The conclusion then presents the study's findings, followed by a list of sources and references. The results reveal that existential presupposition was the most prevalent type of presupposition in the poet's texts, due to the dominant linguistic nature of its tools, such as annexation and definiteness, which appear in nearly every verse or poetic passage. Furthermore, place emerges as a central axis in the poet's diwan, and thus, most of the structural presuppositions embedded in interrogative devices lie in the interrogative tool "where," which is used to inquire about place.