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Record W4413908739 · doi:10.5430/wjel.v16n1p325

Presupposition Analysis in Written Online News Discourse CNN The Death of Liam Payne Ex One Direction Personnel

2025· article· en· W4413908739 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Herman Herman, Jumaria Sirait, Rakhmat Wahyudin Sagala, Rohanna Sinambela, Ridwin Purba, Endang Fatmawati, Claudya Benesa Siagian, Dwi Anggraini

Bibliographic record

VenueWorld Journal of English Language · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicCommunication Studies and Media
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsPresuppositionComputer scienceLinguisticsHistoryPhilosophy

Abstract

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In the digital era, people can obtain information using communication devices. The spread of information on social media is an important factor in understanding its meaning. The language used still has its own rules for communication. It has different meanings or perspectives depending on the person who interprets it. Therefore, this study aims to identify the presuppositions contained in viral news. In general, analyzing language or speech can be identified from anywhere, one of which is news. Therefore, the object of this research is the presupposition found in CNN's news style regarding THE DEATH OF LIAM PAYNE EX ONE DIRECTION PERSONNEL. This presupposition is seen in how the assumptions or inferences implied in the language utterance help provide additional meaning and estimate the context of the language, the language in discourse, conversation or others using Yule's (1996, pp.26-30) which calcifies that Presupposition has six types, they are existential, factive, non-factive, lexical, structural, and counterfactual. However, there are two additional additions, namely adverbial and relative additions. Considering these factors, this study used a qualitative descriptive design. The reason for choosing a qualitative descriptive design is that "the aim of qualitative descriptive research is a comprehensive summary, in everyday terms, of specific events experienced by individuals or groups of individuals" (Lambert & Lambert, 2012). From the results of the analysis and identification, 12 presuppositions were found in the written online news text; adverbial 3 (21.4%), factive 2 (14%), lexical 2 (14%), non-factive 1 (7%), relative 1 (7%), existential 2 (14%), and counter 1 (7%). The most dominant type of presupposition found in the CNN news transcript is factive presupposition. Factive presuppositions are the most common type of presupposition found in news texts they provide accurate information and contain facts.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.005
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.019
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.007
Threshold uncertainty score0.034

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0050.019
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0040.007
Scholarly communication0.0050.006
Open science0.0010.003
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.338
Teacher spread0.319 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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