Les signs d’orthographe chez Tahar Ben Jelloun – ellipse, contexte et culture
Punctuation marks at Tahar Ben Jelloun - ellipsis, context and culture

Summary/Abstract: In this paper, we argue that the ellipsis is a complex linguistic phenomenon which can be studied at an orthographic level. We take into consideration the comma, the semicolon, the dots, the interrogation mark, the exclamation mark and the full stop to show that the existence of the orthographic marks makes possible situations such as enumeration, dramatisation, opposition or interruption which sometimes involve elliptical phenomena in the narrative discourse of Tahar Ben Jelloun. We don’t focus on the existence of an orthographic ellipsis but on the role the orthographic marks play in signaling the ellipsis and on the importance they have in its recovery.

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