ELLIPSIS AS A COHESIVE TIE

Authors

  • Vera Vujević University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46827/ejals.v6i1.425

Keywords:

ellipsis, cohesion, discourse analysis, text, textuality, discourse

Abstract

In this paper we have tried to analyze the cohesive aspect of elliptical constructions that people use in language in order to communicate with each other fluently and without interference. In the light of this, we described the forms of cohesion, ellipsis, and the situational integration of these phenomena within the literary genre, and the ways in which their contents ensure textuality. Special attention is paid to the dominant form of these connections in literature, which are explained in detail through illustrative examples taken from such texts. We have focused on problems and issues related to the textual reference and the general notion of cohesion, coherence and ellipsis.

 

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Author Biography

  • Vera Vujević, University of East Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Pale, Bosnia and Herzegovina

    Vera Vujević, born on 4 May 1980 in Sarajevo, is an associate professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Philosophy University of East Sarajevo. She is engaged in the undergraduate and postgraduate study programmes, where she teaches English Syntax,

    Semantics, Contemporary English and Contrastive Linguistics – English and Serbian. Her

    research field is the linguistics of the modern English language, the syntactic forms of reduced and elliptical constructions which are the subject of her papers, as well as the published monographs Ellipsis in Serbian and English (2017), Cohesion and Ellipsis (2022), and Ellipsis in Drama (2023). She was the editorial secretary for the philological volume (book 1) in the Faculty of Philosophy Collection of Papers, and reviewed papers for the Proceedings from the scientific conferences. She served in the role of vice-dean of scientific research for a three-year period beginning in 2013 to 2015 at the same faculty, and participated in several projects as a member of the project team of the University of East Sarajevo.

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Published

2023-03-29

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Vol. 6 No. 1 (2023)

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