Mind the Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation and Spoken and Written English

ISBN-13: 9780582356795 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 252 str.

Peter Wilson; Peter Wilson

Opis

Examining the "gappiness" of language technically known as ellipsis, this text provides an account of the different contexts, both linguistic and situational which affect its use.

Spis treści

Introduction
PART I: THE FORMS OF ELLIPSIS
1. What is ellipsis?
2. What isn't ellipsis
3. The linguistic context
4. The situational context
5. Telegraphic Ellipsis
6. Coordination Reduction
7. The rough guide to gaps
PART II: THE STYLISTIC EFFECTS OF ELLIPSIS 
8. Style and stylistics
9. Speech styles and ellipsis
10. Sports Commentary
11. Dramatizing Dialogue
12. The conative turn
13. Narrative voices, narrative gaps
14. Ellipsis and compression in poetry
15. Conclusion
Bibliography

O autorze

Wilson, Peter