THE STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF WORDS AND ABBREVIATIONS BUILT DURING THE SOVIET PERIOD Cover Image

СТРУКТУРНО-СЕМАНТИЧЕСКИЕ ОСОБЕННОСТИ СЛОЖНОСОКРАЩЕННЫХ СЛОВ И АББРЕВИАТУР, ОБРАЗОВАННЫХ В СОВЕТСКИЙ ПЕРИОД
THE STRUCTURAL-SEMANTIC CHARACTERISTICS OF WORDS AND ABBREVIATIONS BUILT DURING THE SOVIET PERIOD

Author(s): Jaroslaw Wierzbiński
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Keywords: the language of the Soviet period; Soviet vocabulary (Sovietisms); acronyms

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper there are shown different types of abbreviations that convey the Sovietperiod reality. As it is proved in the contemporary dictionaries, many of such words and structures are still in use today. However, some abbreviations are recognised as obsolete. With the status of historicisms, they became the prove of bureaucratic paperwork that grew in the Soviet era. In thehistory of Russian language numerous abbreviations, such as ЧК or НКВД, became the symbols ofthe Soviet repressive past.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 147-154
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian