[Corpora-List] An Acronymical Corpus? was Re: Call for papers

[Rob Malouf]

Well, there's this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIM1c9ksr5k

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Rob Malouf <rmalouf at mail.sdsu.edu>
Department of Linguistics and Asian/Middle Eastern Languages
San Diego State University



On Jun 3, 2010, at 8:32 AM, Trevor Jenkins wrote:

> 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
> 
> <>< Re: deemed!
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