Acronyms and neighboring categories in the language of photography

  1. Iryna Mykytka
Revue:
Ibérica: Revista de la Asociación Europea de Lenguas para Fines Específicos ( AELFE )

ISSN: 1139-7241,  2340-2784

Année de publication: 2022

Número: 44

Pages: 369-390

Type: Article

DOI: 10.17398/2340-2784.44.369 WoS: WOS:000931387400016 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Résumé

This article focuses on acronyms and related items, namely abbreviations,alphabetisms, blends, and clippings in the language of photography, a field thathas not been previously examined. Numerous studies have dealt with theseword-formation processes in the general language and, although to a lesserextent, in the different specialized languages. To date, despite the ubiquitouspresence of photography in the modern world, no research has addressed theuse of these categories in the language of photography, as one of the manyfields of esp. This paper intends to fill this gap and to identify, analyse andclassify acronyms, alphabetisms, abbreviations, blends, and clippings inphotography discourse focusing on their structure and characteristics. To meetthis objective, a corpus-based approach was followed. The data were gatheredfrom professional photography blogs providing authentic up-to-date lexis. Theresults suggest that these categories abound in the language of photography.Although to differing extents, there are acronyms (e.g., lomo, gobo), alphabetisms(e.g.,DSLR, HDR), abbreviations (e.g., Mpx, mm), blends (squinch, bit), andclippings (e.g., photog, cam), in addition to peripheral cases (e.g., B&W, RAW,L*a*b*) and hybrid categories (e.g., PNG, Jpeg).

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