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An Analysis of the Use of Pragmatic Presuppositions in the Film of the Treatment 　　Abstract：The Treatment is a film which deduced the human world of affection，love，friendship and to social harmony is yearning，because of the difference of culture and cause cross-cultural communication failures also show incisively and vividly. This thesis aims to analyze the Treatment from the perspective of characteristics of pragmatic presupposition. 　　Key words：Pragmatic Presuppositions;the Treatment 　　1.Introduction 　　In The Treatment，the directors present us this controversial topic of culture shock between the Americans and Chinese immigrants. This firm attracted many researchers to study it since its appearance. Research has been done on from different aspects，but from pragmatic presupposition has not yet appearance. This thesis enriches the presupposition theory and broadens its studying and applying field. The research is also instructive to our daily life. 　　2. Presupposition theory 　　A presupposition is the background belief related to an utterance，which must be mutually known or assumed by both the addresser and the addressee for the utterance to be considered and it is a very important concept in pragmatics. As Levinson（2001：167）puts it，“In pragmatics，the literature on presupposition is more than that on almost all the other topics”. This topic has been approached from different perspectives by different scholars，and various kinds of relevant theories are delivered. Since the present research is to study the application of pragmatic presupposition in daily speeches，the presupposition theory adopted in this thesis is pragmatically oriented，involving its notion and properties. 　　3. Pragmatic Persuppositions in the Treatment 　　Features of pragmatic presupposition are closely dependent on the definition of pragmatic presupposition. As there are various definitions on pragmatic presupposition，linguistics have their own understandings on the characteristics of pragmati