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Abbreviations in English, Their Types, Usage and Correspondences to Latvian Counterparts
Nr. | Название главы | Стр. |
INTRODUCTION | 3 | |
1 | THE CONCEPT OF AN ABBREVIATION | 6 |
2 | THE USAGE OF ABBREVIATIONS | 7 |
2.1 | The History of Abbreviations | 8 |
2.2 | The Main Reasons for Using Abbreviations | 10 |
3 | THE TYPES OF ABBREVIATIONS | 11 |
3.1 | Letter Abbreviations | 13 |
3.1.1 | One Letter Abbreviations | 14 |
3.1.2 | Doubled-, Tripled-letter Abbreviations | 20 |
3.1.3 | Initialisms | 22 |
3.1.4 | Acronyms | 23 |
3.2 | Syllabic abbreviations | 24 |
3.3 | Irregular abbreviations | 25 |
3.4 | Mixed abbreviations | 27 |
3.5 | Clippings (truncated words) | 28 |
4 | THE USAGE OF A PERIOD WITH ABBREVIATIONS | 29 |
5 | THE CORRESPONRENCES BETWEEN ENGLISH AND LATVIAN ABBREVIATIONS | 31 |
CONCLUSION | 34 | |
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SOURCES | 37 |
The title of the term paper is “The Abbreviations in English, Their Usage and Correspondences to Latvian Counterparts”.
The reasons for writing a paper on this topic are numerous. First of all, abbreviations are widely used in every day life – in written form of a language as well as in speech. Another reason for writing a paper is that abbreviations are different in form: spelt with a capital or small letter, containing punctuation marks or numbers and symbols or not, some are long, the others are short.
Therefore, the aims of the present paper are:
To get acquainted with the usage of abbreviations;
To discover the types of English abbreviations;
To find correspondences between English and Latvian abbreviations.
The objectives of the research are:
The study and the analysis of the concept “abbreviations, their types and usage” in scientific literature;
The study of English abbreviations;
Discovering of the characteristic features of English abbreviations and grouping them according to the traits found;
Comparison of English and Latvian abbreviations and finding correspondences between them.
The methods of research used:
1.Theoretical: reading, analyzing, and comparing the literature on the issue.
2.Practical: the investigation of English abbreviations, their grouping and analysis.
The structure of the paper is as follows:
The paper is divided into two parts: theoretical and practical. The theoretical part is revealed in chapters 2 and 4. The practical part intertwines with the theoretical part in chapters 1, 3 and 5.…
Kursa darbs angļu filogoģijā par saīsinājumu tēmu. Aplūkots saīsinājuma jēdziens, lietošana, izdalīti 5 saīsinājumu veidi, sniegti piemēri. Salīdzināta saīsinājumu veidošana angļu un latviešu valodās, izdarīti secinājumi.
