01567nam a22001697a 450000500170000000800410001702200140005810000160007224500950008826000730018330000110025644000850026750500650035252008120041765000990122985600690132820240301172041.0240301b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a0973-5208  aPatil, Z N   aEllipsis and Reduced Utterances in Conversationb: A Linguistic Analysis (Journal Article)  aChennai b: English Language Teachers' Association of India c, 2022  a3-10p.  aJournal of English Language Teaching v, Volume 64 Number 2 : March - April 2022  a***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________***

  aAbstract: Language is a resource and like any other resource, we generally do away with repetition and use it economically. One device that we frequently use to avoid redundancy and to speak and write naturally is the ellipsis. In the present paper, I have chosen a conversational text to demonstrate and illustrate how ellipsis helps us to achieve these objectives. It is an audio-visual conversation, but for the sake of convenience, I have used only the scripted version of the conversation. However, I have referred to aspects of spoken English that characterize conversations in general and this conversation in particular. While analyzing the table tennis conversation, I have used examples from literature to illustrate some features of spoken language and to support my analysis of the conversation.  aellipsis | reduced utterances | gapped conversation | features of spoken language | redundancy  uhttps://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jelt/article/view/JELT640202