Pragmatic function of ellipsis in political interview
Pragmatic function of ellipsis in political interview

Summary/Abstract: Any interview reflects the general trend of economy and efficiency in terms of languageuse. It implies that language is a crucial tool at the disposal of the participants of interview. In thisconnection, political interview draws a special interest as it serves as an excellent platform thatdemonstrates how a balance between explicitness and implicitness could be found for successfulsocial interaction. Since success is critical for both participants of political interview, they are eagerto achieve it using all available linguistic devices. From this perspective, the role of ellipsis appearsto be crucial because of its unique ability to provide minimum explicit linguistic devices and at thesame time to deliver necessary message relying on extra-linguistic and linguistic contexts. Thus, thepaper aims to explore the pragmatic functions of various elliptical constructions extensively usedin political interview. The conversation analysis of these constructions suggests that the instancesof their usages are motivated by both linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts.

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