[Corpora-List] An Acronymical Corpus? was Re: Call for papers
Trevor Jenkins
trevor.jenkins at suneidesis.com
Thu Jun 3 15:32:09 UTC 2010
On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, John F. Sowa <sowa at bestweb.net> wrote:
This post and its follow-ups got me thinking about whether a corpus exists
of entire conversations conducted using acronyms. Readily visible in
text-speek/SMS of course but I was thinking of more real-world settings.
> The New York Times has an editorial policy that every acronym must
> be written in full at first use. That is a good practice to follow
> with sentences like the following:
>
> > We welcome papers that examine LSP in written and oral discourse
> > and genres from a wide variety of methodologies and theoretical
> > frameworks, including interdisciplinary research.
>
> The pointer at the end goes to a file that has the full phrase,
> Language for Specific Purposes, and cites a reference in 2006
> as the source. Perhaps the in-crowd might know that, but if they
> want to attract people from different "theoretical frameworks,"
> they might consider the NYT style.
>
> Furthermore, the full announcement doesn't mention the older
> term 'sublanguage', which has many more hits on Google,
> including a Wikipedia article. An even older term is
> Wittgenstein's 'language games'.
>
> By the way, the first hit on Google Scholar that relates
> the acronym LSP to language is to a paper that talks about
> Line Spectrum Pairs for speech analysis-synthesis.
>
> John Sowa
>
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Regards, Trevor
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