Pragmatics of intentional omission in a film synopsis
... and their effect on the text pragmatics. The sample includes 100 film synopses for Russian films spanning 2010—2023. The analysis of the elements of their semantic structure shows that in film synopses, semantic incompleteness takes the shape of 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 ...
