The artistic significance of vowel elision and ellipsis in Mqapheli Mngadi’s cartoons

Abstract

This paper examines vowel elision and ellipsis in Mqapheli Mngadi’s cartoons. It intends to explore how these two aspects are employed by Mngadi for artistic effects in his cartoons. Even though vowel elision and ellipsis have been widely explored, there has not been a study, to the best of the researcher’s knowledge, that considers these aspects in Mngadi’s cartoons. The study is done literary, and it adopts literary stylistics as a theoretical framework.

Keywords: {'name': 'Cartoons'}, {'name': 'Vowel Elision'}, {'name': 'Ellipsis'}, {'name': 'Literary Criticism'}, {'name': 'Linguistics'}

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Sizwe Zwelakhe Dlamini
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