Grammatical Unit Ellipsis on the News Presented via Twitter
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This research article aims to analyze and categorize grammatical unit ellipsis on the news via Twitter. This research was qualitative. The research data was collected from the Thai news sources via 8 accounts of Twitter during the period of June 1st – August 31st 2023. The Data analysis was adapted to Halliday and Matthiessen (2004)’s concept of grammatical unit as well as Sriyabhaya (2020)’s concept of ellipsis in texts. The results indicated that there were four types of grammatical unit ellipsis — 1) word ellipsis: nouns, verbs, pronouns and conjunctions 2) phrase ellipsis: noun phrases, verb phrases, quantifier phrases and prepositional phrases 3) clause ellipsis: nominal clauses, relative clauses and adverbial clauses 4) sentence ellipsis. In addition, the results showed that there were two styles of grammatical unit ellipsis— firstly, those of with linguistic form appeared earlier, secondly, those of without linguistic form appeared in texts. The word ellipsis was found in both styles; whereas the phrase ellipsis, clause ellipsis and sentence ellipsis were found in the first style only.
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