Editing Ellipsis (section)

==In texting==
In text-based communications, the ellipsis may indicate:
* Floor holding, signal that more is to come, for instance when people break up longer turns in chat.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Simpson|first=J|title=Meaning-making online: Discourse and CMC in a Language learning community|journal=Recent Research Developments in Learning Technologies|year=2005|citeseerx = 10.1.1.108.463}}</ref>
* Politeness, for instance indicating topic change or hesitation.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Erika|first=Darics|title=Relational work in synchronous text-based CMC of virtual teams|journal=Handbook of Research on Discourse Behavior and Digital Communication: Language Structures and Social Interaction|year=2010|url=http://eprints.port.ac.uk/3682/|access-date=2012-07-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140405090849/http://eprints.port.ac.uk/3682/|archive-date=2014-04-05}}</ref>
* [[Turn construction unit]] to signal silence, for example when indicating disagreement, disapproval or confusion.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Ong|first=Kenneth Keng Wee|title=Disagreement, Confusion, Disapproval, Turn Elicitation and Floor Holding: Actions accomplished by Ellipsis Marks-Only Turns and Blank Turns in Quasisynchronous Chat|journal=Discourse Studies|year=2011|volume=13|issue=2|pages=211–234|doi=10.1177/1461445610392138|hdl=10220/7160 |s2cid=220786774 |hdl-access=free}}</ref>

Although an ellipsis is complete with three periods (...), an ellipsis-like construct with more dots is used to indicate "trailing-off" or "silence".<ref name=dots>{{cite conference|url=http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/facultyprofiles/files/publications/ADmanessj/Maness--The%20Power%20of%20Dots%28personal%29.pdf|title=The Power of Dots: Using Nonverbal Compensators in Chat Reference|first=Jack M.|last=Maness|year=2007|conference=Annual Meeting of ASIS&T|conference-url=http://www.asis.org/Conferences/AM07/|book-title=Proceedings of the 2007 Annual Meeting of ASIS&T|publisher=University Libraries − [[University of Colorado at Boulder]]|access-date=24 October 2011|doi=10.1002/meet.1450440341|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121203091642/http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/facultyprofiles/files/publications/ADmanessj/Maness--The%20Power%20of%20Dots%28personal%29.pdf|archive-date=3 December 2012|doi-access=free}}</ref> The extent of repetition in itself might serve as an additional contextualization or paralinguistic cue; one paper wrote that they "extend the lexical meaning of the words, add character to the sentences, and allow fine-tuning and personalisation of the message".<ref>{{Citation |last1=Kalman |first1=Yoram M. |title=CMC Cues Enrich Lean Online Communication: The Case of Letter and Punctuation Mark Repetitions |date=2010 |url=https://www.scholars.northwestern.edu/en/publications/cmc-cues-enrich-lean-online-communication-the-case-of-letter-and- |work=Proceedings of the Fifth Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131208021439/http://www.kalmans.com/MCIS2010Cues.pdf |access-date=2023-03-02 |archive-date=8 December 2013 |last2=Gergle |first2=Darren Robert}}</ref>

While composing a text message, some environments show others in the conversation a [[typing awareness indicator]] ellipsis to indicate remote activity.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Gardiner |first1=Michael E. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iiQlDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA147 |title=Boredom Studies Reader: Frameworks and Perspectives |last2=Haladyn |first2=Julian Jason |date=2016-10-04 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-317-40361-6 |page=147 |language=en}}</ref>