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Mind The Gap - Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English (Hardcover)
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Mind The Gap - Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English (Hardcover)
Series: Textual Explorations
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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, because speakers and writers
operate in contexts which allow bits of language to be understood
rather than expressed. This book systematically analyses this
inherent gappiness of language, known as ellipsis, and provides an
account of the different contexts, both linguistic and situational,
which affect its use. Peter Wilson draws on a wide variety of
examples of spoken and written English, and both literary and
non-literary to present a comprehensive classification of
elliptical language that ranges from the conversational fragment
and the advertisement to the dialogue of Shakespeare and imagist
poetry. Mind the Gap shows how ellipsis is a feature of major
structural and stylistic importance to our understanding of spoken
and written language, and will be of interest to undergraduate
students of linguistics, literature, communication and the
interrelations between them..
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