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

ISBN-13: 9781138161962 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 252 str.

Peter Wilson

Opis

We rarely speak or even write in the complete sentences that are often held to be the ideal form of linguistic communication. Language is in fact full of gaps as speakers and writers often communicate in situations which allow bits of language to be understood rather than expressed. This book examines this 'gappiness' of language, technically known as ellipsis, and 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