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Ellipsis In EST Writings And Its Translation

Posted on:2007-04-11Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:D H QiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2155360212955849Subject:Foreign Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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With the development of sci-tech and the globalization, EST (English for Science and Technology), a variety of ESP, is becoming increasingly important and popular. EST possesses peculiarities, which call for attention and research in pursuit of its satisfactory E-C translation.From the point of a register view, we can say that EST is the register of science and technology for modern English. It is a language used by the scientists and technicians in a special situation.It is obvious that EST has many features and some of them might probably cause difficulties in the process of the interpretation of EST documents. Ellipsis in such documents is generally believed to be a major obstacle.However, the phenomena of ellipsis, which are, in fact, no small matter, are more often than not neglected. The author of this paper thinks they are worth observing and thus focuses her attentions on this topic. Based on her study of various elliptical constructions in EST, the author divides ellipsis in EST writings into two categories: Structural Ellipsis and Textual Ellipsis. The emphasis is, however, laid upon Textual Ellipsis, which appears quite frequently in EST writings. And the Textual Ellipsis is subdivided into General Ellipsis and Special Ellipsis, on which a further analysis and study is made in this paper. Then the author sums up...
Keywords/Search Tags:EST, General Ellipsis, Textual Ellipsis, Structural Ellipsis
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