Pragmatic function of ellipsis in political Interview. Found Lingwistyczne tom 11, № 2
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2023
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Any interview reflects the general trend of economy and efficiency in terms of language
use. It implies that language is a crucial tool at the disposal of the participants of interview. In this
connection, political interview draws a special interest as it serves as an excellent platform that
demonstrates how a balance between explicitness and implicitness could be found for successful
social interaction. Since success is critical for both participants of political interview, they are eager
to achieve it using all available linguistic devices. From this perspective, the role of ellipsis appears
to be crucial because of its unique ability to provide minimum explicit linguistic devices and at the
same time to deliver necessary message relying on extra-linguistic and linguistic contexts. Thus, the
paper aims to explore the pragmatic functions of various elliptical constructions extensively used
in political interview. The conversation analysis of these constructions suggests that the instances
of their usages are motivated by both linguistic and extra-linguistic contexts.
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Political interview, Linguistic context, Implicitness