Abbreviations and Acronyms in English Word-Formation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8729612 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Garland Cannon (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 99-99 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Speech (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1283 • E-ISSN: 1527-2133 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/455038 |
| OpenAlex | W2332057858 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 10 |
THIS IS THE FOURTH ARTICLE IN A SERIES about categories of English word-formation-the first three articles treating functional shift, blends, and back-formations (Cannon 1985, 1986; Cannon and Bailey 1986). Collections of abbreviations and acronyms and the considerable scholarship on these two categories will be reviewed, possible solutions to presently untenable definitions and other problems will be offered, and a large corpus of recent items in the two categories will be analyzed. This study has the advantage of drawing on vastly more numerous written data and building on a comprehensive earlier study-Algeo's article (1975), which summarizes the overlapping terminology and the scholarship to that date. This study will update his data and findings, especially in light of the large corpus that we will describe. It will simultaneously update the overall analysis of all 21 categories in Cannon's total 13,683item corpus (1987), and make some comparisons with other categories. The results may shed light on lexicology and lexical theory, the dynamic relations between writing and speech, and the seeming state of the art, as it were, for abbreviations and acronyms
Linguistics · Natural language processing · Word (group theory · Word formation · Computer Science · Lexicography and Language Studies · Linguistics and language evolution · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · History · Philosophy
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| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,58 |
| Citation span | 2002 - 2024 (23) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |