Substitution and Ellipsis as Cohesive Devices in The Little Prince Movie

Abstract

This study deals with substitution and ellipsis in The Little Prince movie. The objectives of this study are to find out the types and the dominant type of substitution and ellipsis in the movie, also to describe how the dominant type of substitution and ellipsis contributes to the dialogues coherences in the movie. There are 67 scenes in the movie and 49 of them with 256 utterances that contain of substitution and ellipsis were taken as the data. This study is a descriptive qualitative-quantitative study. The data was collected by watching the movie, reading the dialogue, transcribing the data and underlining the chosen dialogues. After analyzing the data, 6 types of substitution and ellipsis were found in the dialogues of The Little Prince movie. They are nominal substitution (4.3%), verbal substitution (5.9%), clausal substitution (3.1%), nominal ellipsis (25.8%), verbal ellipsis (17.6%), and clausal ellipsis (43.3%). The most dominant type of substitution and ellipsis is clausal ellipsis. Clausal ellipsis as cohesive device contributes the coherence of The Little Prince dialogues in two ways, semantic presupposition approach which is based on its role as cohesive device that was presupposed anaphorically, and pragmatic presupposition approach by looking the context in which the dialogues occurs.