Pragmatics of intentional omission in a film synopsis
... semantic gaps and implicatures. Importantly, it affects any element, including the inciting incident, personages and spatial and temporal settings. The findings reveal that the intentional omission is predominantly implicit and the employment of inference cannot fill all semantic gaps, thus intrigue is preserved. However, in some film synopses intrigue is expressed explicitly. Our findings show the range of linguistic markers signaling the intentional omission of information in sample texts. ...
