Information Development of Ellipsis in EST Writings
Mingwu Xu · Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology · 2008
This article focuses on the way of information development of ellipsis in EST from sentence level. Based on information theory, data collection is carried out and further analysis showed that four information functions (conciseness/ coherence/ emphasis/ contrast) do work in the elliptical sentences. The four functions are distributed with special features for different reasons.