| Title: | CLIPPINGS IN ENGLISH: A COMPARISON OF CLIPPINGS AND THEIR UNCLIPPED VARIANTS |
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| Authors: | ID Hamer, Anja (Author)
ID Plemenitaš, Katja (Mentor) More about this mentor...  |
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| Files: |  UNI_Hamer_Anja_2013.pdf (1,37 MB)
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PID: 20.500.12556/dkum/63ca8b55-9678-42f7-95ba-65ecd4e5f80d
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Undergraduate thesis |
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| Typology: | 2.11 - Undergraduate Thesis |
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| Organization: | FF - Faculty of Arts
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| Abstract: | According to Adams (1992) clipping is as a process by which a word of two or more syllables (usually a noun) is shortened without a change in its function taking place (Adams, 1992, 135). Clipped words are mostly formed in informal language but can be easily transferred into a formal language and thus become part of the official language.
The main purpose of graduation thesis is to analyze the difference of occurrences of fifty clipped words and their unclipped variants in the spoken, newspaper and academic genres as well as in all three genres overall in the time period 2010-2012. A corpus analysis was made for this purpose. The data was obtained from the Corpus of Contemporary American English.
The results showed that the majority of clipped words prevail over their unclipped variants in the spoken and newspaper genres. The majority of clipped words also dominate over their unclipped variants in all the three genres overall. Clipped words also appear in the academic genre but do not prevail over their unclipped variants.
The results are interpreted on the basic of the fact that clipped words easily transfer into Standard English, speakers prefer to use clipped forms rather than unclipped variants in order to gain simplicity and to show familiarity with the social groups they belong to while authors of newspaper articles tend to use eye-catching words in headlines. |
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| Keywords: | clipped words, unclipped variants, COCA, spoken genre, newspaper genre, academic genre |
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| Place of publishing: | Maribor |
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| Publisher: | [A. Hamer] |
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| Year of publishing: | 2013 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DKUM-40630 |
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| UDC: | 811.111(043.2) |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 19977480 |
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| NUK URN: | URN:SI:UM:DK:MBLZ6OEO |
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| Publication date in DKUM: | 10.07.2013 |
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| Views: | 1977 |
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