PRESUPPOSITION USED IN VOICE OVER OF TANGKIS PROGRAM ON INEWS TV MEDAN

Abstract

This research focused on presupposition used in Voice Over of Tangkis program
on Deli TV (now iNews TV). This research conducted by using descriptive
qualitative in which the writer describes and analyze the meaning of the script of a
news. The data were taken from voice over of Tangkis program on Deli TV. The
findings shown that there were 305 utterances contained five from six types of
presupposition. The result of this research show that voice over of Tangkis
program on Deli TV tends to use Existential Presupposition (72%), Factive
Presupposition (5%), Lexical Presupposition (6%), Non-Factive Presupposition
(12%), and Counterfactual Presupposition (5%). The dominant type is Existential
Presupposition, which means that the voice over purposed to tell the reader a news
that happening to somebody especially crime such as murder and accident.