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Funcţii textual-discursive ale elipsei
Textual - Discursive Functions of the Ellipsis

Author(s): Iulia Mihaela Tămaș
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: ellipsis of the theme; the thematic progression; the incompleteness; the inferential operations; the referents; of referential ambiguation;

Summary/Abstract: This article is an attempt to highlight those functions which the textual ellipsis updates in the text-discourse. When dealing with the thematic organization of the statement in the theme/ rheme, the ellipsis of the theme has an ellipsis of the given information as a result; consequently,importance is given to the new information,which influences the thematic progression.The incompleteness of the macro-syntactical structures leads to an interpenetration of the two types of operations, those of a grammatical nature and the inferential operations, insomuch as the interpretations of the verbal sequences, within and without the statement, require a reference to extratextual information, either situational or encyclopedic knowledge. Identifying the referents within an ellipsis depends on both the co-textual and the contextual space. On a semantic-referential level, by means of indirect reference phenomena and referential slide, the ellipsis leads to an effect of referential ambiguation.

  • Issue Year: XXVI/2017
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 101-109
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Romanian