LK, 2. december 2024

[Lingvistični krožek Janeza Orešnika]

LINGVISTIČNI KROŽEK JANEZA OREŠNIKA

vabi na 1253. sestanek
v ponedeljek, 2. decembra 2024, ob 18:00
v predavalnici 325 v 3. nadstropju Filozofske fakultete.

Predaval bo:
dr. Alpo Honkapohja
(Univerza v Talinu)

Tema predavanja:
The Long History of Shortening: A typological and diachronic perspective on abbreviations (Dolga zgodovina krajšanja: okrajšave z vidika tipologije in diahronije)

Abbreviating words instead of spelling them out in full is a practice that spans across the entire history of written communication, from ancient stone inscriptions and medieval manuscripts to 19^th-century telegrams and modern-day WhatsApp messages. Unsurprisingly, abbreviations have been studied across various disciplines, including lexicology, computer-mediated communication (CMC), and paleography. However, as these fields rarely engage with each other, this attention has been compartmentalised, typically focusing on a specific period, text type, or form of abbreviation.

This talk aims to approach abbreviation as a single phenomenon, driven by the shared motivations of saving time, space, and effort, across all forms of media. The presentation will include a theoretical discussion of abbreviation from the perspectives of writing system typology, pragmatics, and word-formation processes. It will also present a corpus-based study, offering a long-term diachronic comparison of abbreviation usage in English texts from the 15^th century to the present day.

Predavanje bo v angleščini. Vabljeni tudi študentje.

Za predsedstvo:
Chikako Shigemori Bučar