Another famous theory to explain ellipsis is Economy Principle, which was put forward by Chomsky in his Generate Crammer。 It maintains that language and linguistic study follow Economy Principle, which means using the least effort to express the most information。 This principle just coincides with ellipsis in function。来,自,优.尔:论;文*网www.chuibin.com +QQ752018766-

In this thesis, I think that brevity is the most obvious and common function of ellipsis, especially in daily language。 And in both English and Chinese, people advocate brevity。 Shakespeare once remarked, “brevity is the soul of wit”, （Hamlet, act2, scene2, p4）and in Chinese there are numerous idioms like “yan jian yi gai” (meaning compendious)。 However, apart from the function of brevity, ellipsis embodies other functions which are also pretty common in the two languages but less noticed (Hua Xianfa 53)。 These functions exist in both English and Chinese unevenly and represent great colorfulness of language。 Exploring other functions of ellipsis and searching for functional recreation in translation will be of largely benefit to both English-Chinese and Chinese-English translation。