Discourse analysis

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  Will you repeat the word ellipse all the time or is there any other word which may replace the word ellipses?
  

Activity 1 Look at this sentences and find the ellipsis and rewrite the full sentence
A: Have you ever thought of trying to get a job abroad?
B: No.
substitution is the replacement of a word or phrase with a filler word such as "one", "so", or "do" in order to avoid repetition. Consider the following example from Gelett Burgess' poem "The Purple Cow". 
I never saw a Purple Cow,
I never hope to see one;
But I can tell you, anyhow,
I'd rather see than be one.
This author relies on substitution to make his piece less monotonous. Notice how, in lines two and four, "one" is used in place of "The Purple Cow". Burgess was far from the first, and certainly not the last, writer to use substitution. In fact, substitution was one of the methods of cohesion examined by M. A. K. Halliday and Ruqaiya Hasan in 1976 in the influential text Cohesion in English and remains one of the main tools for written coherence today (Halliday and Hasan 1976).

Examples and Observations

Substitution is not restricted to writing and can be found in many types of media. See the following spoken examples from television and speeches.

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  "Don't you ever read the Times, Watson? I've often advised you to do so if you want to know something," (Lee, Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace).
  
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  "When I quote others, I do so in order to express my own ideas more clearly." -Michel de Montaigne
  
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  Niles: "I'll have a decaf latte, and please be sure to use skim milk.
  Frasier: I'll have the same," ("You Can't Tell a Crook by His Cover").
  
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  "Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better,"(Lincoln 1848).
  
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  "All generalizations are false, including this one." -Unknown
  
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  Alan Garner: "Hey guys, when's the next Haley's comet?
  Stu Price: I don't think it's for like another sixty years or something.
  Alan Garner: But it's not tonight, right?
  Stu Price: No, I don't think so," (Galifianakis and Helms, The Hangover).