An Analysis of Ellipsis Used in “Soul” Movie Script

There are many types of figures of speech in English, one of which is ellipsis. Ellipsis that appears in texts and movies occasionally still confuses students. This study examined ellipsis in Soul movie. The aims of this study are to analyze what types are used in the Soul Movie script and to investigate the most dominant type of ellipsis used in the Soul Movie script. This study uses a descriptive qualitative method to analyze the data. The data collection is done by watching the Soul movie several times, reading the script, looking for the ellipsis that may contain in the script, and using a calculation to determine the most dominant type of ellipsis. The result of the study showed that all three types of ellipsis appear in the soul movie which are Nominal ellipsis (20%), Verbal ellipsis (36.20%), and Clausal ellipsis (43.80%). This study also showed that Clausal becomes the most dominant type of ellipsis with 127 utterances (43.80%). The most dominant sub-type of nominal ellipsis is deictic (71%), the verbal ellipsis is the operator (84%), and clausal ellipsis is modal (41%). It is expected that the study’s findings would provide a better understanding of ellipsis analysis, which focuses on simplifying sentence forms and minimizing redundancy by omitting parts.