GRAMMATICAL, COMPONENT, DISCOURSE, AND CONCEPTUAL ELLIPSIS ARE EXAMPLES OF COMMUNICATIVE GAPS

Abstract

The “communicative gap” is seen as zero externalization in speech, which is correlated with a lack of knowledge of specific realities, ethnonyms or other specifics thus resulting in pauses, and then in cognitive dissonance. Gaps are opposed to non-equivalent vocabulary. A gap is a prototype of a zero element. In translation, gaps emerge while the unknown information transfers through the thesaurus of the personality – the personal AVN (the associative-verbal network). Gaps are fixed at the time of comparison and reconstruction of the foreign language and an unfamiliar culture. Making comparisons to other languages, we aim at finding lacunae in contrasting elements. Nonverbal gaps are eliminated both verbally and non-verbally over time, and have a protracted temporal way that can be measured in years.