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Abbreviation - a sign of language economy in foreign language specialist texts

The Scientific Journal for Economics and Management

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Title Abbreviation - a sign of language economy in foreign language specialist texts
 
Creator Dvořáková, Milena
 
Description The paper deals with one of the topical wordbuilding processes in specialist texts - abbreviation. In specia­list language is this possibility used in wider sense since in specialist language is applied the strain for clearness and derivation of terms next to the economical side of this wordbuilding process. The linguistic quality of abbre­viations with brachigraphic character, popularity of abbreviations in world languages answers the international tendencies of specialist language. The wordbuilding process is nowadays widespread in foreign langua­ge terminology. This is undoubtedly connected with a large number of multiple word terms. From the analyzed survey follows a 2,5% occurrence of abbreviations in agrarian economic texts. The research of the French agrari­an texts confirms the high frequency of multiple word terms and derivation. The greatest imbalance showed at abbreviations, where the bigger percentage is represented m popular specialist texts on the contrary to the other texts. It can depend on a whole range of subjective factors, concerning the author of the texts, to objective realities following from the character of specialist text.
 
Publisher University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice, Faculty of Economics
 
Date 2012-08-27
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://ojs.ef.jcu.cz/acta/article/view/27
 
Source Acta Universitatis Bohemiae Meridionalis; Vol 2 No 1 (1999); 25-28
2336-4297
1212-3285
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://ojs.ef.jcu.cz/acta/article/view/27/26