Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English - Textual Explorations - Peter Wilson - Books - Taylor & Francis Ltd - 9781138161962 - January 19, 2017
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Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English - Textual Explorations 1st edition

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Mind The Gap: Ellipsis and Stylistic Variation in Spoken and Written English - Textual Explorations 1st edition

  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..


252 pages

Media Books     Hardcover Book   (Book with hard spine and cover)
Released January 19, 2017
ISBN13 9781138161962
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd
Pages 252
Dimensions 453 g
Language English  

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