es of letters. Jackson and Ze Amvela (2000) assure that acronyms are spelled as one word, though.the practical part
the comparative analysis of acronyms of business English taken from Ekonomikos termin? ? odynas (1997) was carried out. Thus quantitative research method was applied in the research. The acronyms were analyzed by using an alphabetical order and the frequency of their usage was compared in in seven different registers of British National Corpus: SPOKEN, FICTION, MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, NON-ACADEMIC, ACADEMIC and MISCpare the frequency of particular acronyms in different registers of British National Corpus acronyms were selected from Ekonomikos termin? ? odynas (1997) by using an alphabetical order. This corpus was chosen due to its universal possibilities of extinguishing the frequency of any linguistic items, in the present case, the acronyms under discussion. There are seven registers in the British National Corpus which were used to compare the productivity of acronyms: SPOKEN, FICTION, MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, NON-ACAD (non-academic), ACADEMIC and MISC (minimal instruction set computer). The British National Corpus contains more than 100 million words and millions of different contexts which were collected during 1980s - 1993. There were five acronyms selected from Ekonomikos termin? ? odynas (1997) in order to distinguish the percentage of frequency of each acronym in a particular register. According to the theoretical review, there were analyzed acronyms classified to the Business language which is reflected in such registers as MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, ACADEMIC and MISC.stages of the research could be presented as follows: Firstly, theoretical literature on the issue of acronyms was analyzed. Acronyms, taken from Ekonomikos termin? ? odynas (1997), are similar in their structure with those mentioned in theoretical part. Secondly, the percentage of productivity of each acronym in given registers was counted. In addition, there were charts of acronyms made in order to see vast differences of their productivity through the registers of British National Corpus. Additionally efforts were made to prove the frequent usage of acronyms in business context through such registers as MAGAZINE, NEWSPAPER, ACADEMIC and MISC (minimal instruction set computer). Finally, the final conclusions of the research paper were drawn.
. The Frequency of Acronym Formation in British National Corpus
it has been mentioned in the introductory part of the paper one of the objectives of the research was to determine the frequency of acronyms in Business language in different registers in British National Corpus. This part of the paper provides five charts in order to highlight the difference of productivity of acronyms in seven different registers of British National Corpus.following figure presents the frequency of acronym APC (average propensity to consume) in different registers (Figure2). 1. The percentage of frequency of acronym APC in different registers
analysis of the empirical research data revealed that acronym APC stands for average propensity to consume (Ekonomikos termin?? odynas 1997). As it can be seen from the figure abo ve, in SPOKEN register there is no frequency of acronym APC at all. In FICTION are 6 tokens which comprise 0,38% of the frequency of the acronym. Also in MAGAZINE register there is 1 token which presents 0,14% of frequency of the acronym. Only 1 token contains the NEWSPAPER register which constitutes 0,10% of frequency. In contrast, in NON-ACADEMIC register 14 tokens are found. It comprises 0,85% of productivity. The most productive of all these registers is ACADEMIC and MISC sub-selections. ACADEMIC register presenting 1,89%, and the MISC - 1,92% .following figure (Figure 2) presents the information about the frequency of acronym APM (average propensity to import) in different registers.
Figure 2. The percentage of frequency of acronym APM in different registers
Figure 2 the frequency of the acronym APM is given which means average propensity to import (Ekonomikos termin?? odyn as 1997). As it is shown in the above figure some registers as SPOKEN, FICTION, MAGAZINE and NEWSPAPER do not contain the acronym APM. NON-ACADEMIC register contains 3 tokens what equals to 0,18% of frequency. In ACADEMIC register 3 tokens were noticed which comprise 0,20% of frequency of the given acronym. In the last MISC register 3 tokens are found which constitute 0,14% of frequency of the given acronym.following figure presents the frequency of the acronym APS (aver...
