01618nam a22001937a 4500 20240301172041.0 240301b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 0973-5208 Patil, Z N Ellipsis and Reduced Utterances in Conversation : A Linguistic Analysis (Journal Article) Chennai : English Language Teachers' Association of India , 2022 3-10p. Journal of English Language Teaching , Volume 64 Number 2 : March - April 2022 ***______{For Hard Copy, Please visit Library.}________*** Abstract: 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. ellipsis | reduced utterances | gapped conversation | features of spoken language | redundancy https://journals.eltai.in/index.php/jelt/article/view/JELT640202 PER 0 0 0 0 RIEBPL RIEBPL 2024-03-01 0 2024-03-01 00:00:00 2024-03-01 PER 45473 45472