title: The role of the internet in the proliferation of new acronyms in the Russian language
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metadata.value: Bruns, Thomas
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-03-03T18:26:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-03-03T18:26:32Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-09
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Bruns T. The role of the internet in the proliferation of new acronyms in the Russian language. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. Language and Literature. 2020, 17 (3): 373–387.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu09.2020.301
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/25115
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: This paper focuses on a special form of English borrowing: the use of acronyms with phraseological
  meaning. The Russian computer language, more precisely the Russian computer
  slang, is unthinkable without the influence of English. This influence is manifested at various
  language levels and in a variety of forms (borrowings, calques and half-calques, univerbats,
  reverse derivatives, alphabetic and alphanumeric abbreviations, “distorted forms” of both full
  names and acronyms). Based on the English abbreviations, first the meaning of the respective
  full form is explained in English and then its fate is illustrated in the Russian host language.
  Comparison with German, which also borrowed a large number of such abbreviations, shows
  similarities and differences in the processing of these phraseological units. The term “digital
  communication” here refers not only to communication on the Internet in a narrower sense
  (chats, forums, e-mail, etc.), but also to such channels as SMS, Twitter, WhatsApp, and others.
  The Internet plays a double role in the development of the modern Russian language: firstly,
  as a means of mass communication that provides an opportunity to popularize new linguistic
  phenomena in the shortest possible time and with maximum range, and secondly, as a generator
  of new linguistic forms that would be impossible without the Internet itself. One part of
  these neologisms refers to the technical features of digital communication and the tools necessary
  for it, while the other part refers to the implementation of a new communicative style that
  is clearly different from analogue communication in its oral and written forms.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Language and Literature;Volume 17; Issue 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: phraseological borrowing
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: phraseological neologism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: abbreviation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: acronym
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: computer slang
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The role of the internet in the proliferation of new acronyms in the Russian language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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