Abstract:
The aim of this master thesis is to describe ellipsis occurrence in the environment of selected media of online communication, in this case an online forum, YouTube commentary section and Facebook commentaries. The thesis defines electronic discourse and three genres of computer-mediated communication and summarizes the language used. Then, there are characteristics of ellipsis described and ellipsis is categorized into a taxonomy. In the second part, samples of ellipsis from the forum, YouTube and Facebook are analyzed and categorized according to the presented taxonomy.
