ON THE PROBLEM OF ABBREVIATION AS A MEANS OF LINGUISTIC ECONOMY (UPON THE MATERIAL OF THE ENGLISH LITERARY TEXT “REPORT FROM IRON MOUNTAIN ON THE POSSIBILITY & DESIRABILITY OF PEACE”)

Authors

  • Margarita MILOVA International Humanitarian University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52846/aucssflingv.v44i1-2.54

Keywords:

abbreviation, language system, structural-semantic

Abstract

The article throws light upon the theoretical understanding of the role and place of abbreviations, as well as the description of the structural and semantic features of the abbreviation vocabulary. It aims at developing a systematic approach to the study of this phenomenon on the material of an English literary text by defining the types of acronyms in English on the basis of conventional, common usage, analysis of the systemic, structural, semantic characteristics of the abbreviated vocabulary of English and by trying establish the basic structural-semantic characteristics of such vocabulary.

Published

2022-11-18