L’ellipse culturellle - un défi pour le milieu professionnel
Cultural ellipsis - challenge for the professional environment

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to show that the existence of the cultural ellipsis in the narrative discourse requires the recovery of the missing elements, the lack of this cognitive process meaning an incomplete interpretation of the text; this recovery must be done by the specialists in literature and linguistics, because the moral ellipsis, the ellipsis in translations and the genesis ellipsis, which are three types of narrative ellipsis in relation with the culture, can be efficiently studied in the professional field. We argue that sometimes a writer can say more implicitly than explicitly and that the interpret could understand more by the recovery of the missing elements on the grounds of the cultural context than by the analysis of the existing elements without taking into consideration the cultural elements.

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