Assessing the impact of English abbreviations on the Italian language
A discussion based on the forms, frequency and functions of USA in written texts
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11435600 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna-Maria De Cesare (0000-0003-0548-2240, University of Basel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 128-145 |
| Publication date | 2016-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Italianist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1748-619X • E-ISSN: 0261-4340 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02614340.2015.1120062 |
| OpenAlex | W2471633474 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The goal of this paper is to assess the impact of English on the structures of contemporary Italian by focusing on the use of abbreviations, a phenomenon that is usually not taken into account systematically when dealing with anglicisms used in Italian. Specifically, the paper is devoted to the abbreviation USA, which is a commonly occurring form in contemporary Italian functioning as both a noun and an adjective. On the basis of different corpora of written texts, the paper offers insights into the forms, frequency, morpho-syntactic and pragmatic functions of the abbreviation USA, discusses to what extent this abbreviation competes with alternative forms (Stati Uniti, americano etc.) and highlights the process that led to its use as an adjective. In the conclusion, important descriptive and theoretical implications of our findings are presented
Adjective · Epistemology · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Noun · Phenomenon · Computer Science · History · Language and Culture · Linguistic Studies and Language Acquisition · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
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| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |