Abbreviations : language game as entertainment or as a tool of evaluation? (based on the language of modern Russian media) Cover Image

Аббревиатуры: языковая игра как развлечение или как инструмент оценки? (на материале языка современных российских СМИ)
Abbreviations : language game as entertainment or as a tool of evaluation? (based on the language of modern Russian media)

Author(s): Svetlana Vasilevna Ilyasova
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: abbreviation; language game; mass media language; evaluation

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents various methods of language game with abbreviations: dezabbreviation (jokingly decoding acronyms), word creationfrom abbreviations, the creation of parody abbreviations, game with precedent phenomena. All of these techniques are viewed through the prism of social value.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 87-94
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian