Actual issues of Ukrainian linguistics: theory and practice (2016). Volume 32. P. 178-189.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17721/APULTP.2016.32.178-189
Abstract. The author in aspect of cognition of Ukrainian literary language's evolution and analyzes extra-and intralinguistic differences
between the two waves of so-called abbreviation explosion. The material linguistically objectifies category of language antonyms that correlates with social causes of acronyms' creating. In
comparison of abbreviations processes in Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian languages it is possible to formulate the thesis about abbreviation processes as one of the manifestations of the
analytic system of Ukrainian language.
Key words: abbreviation, abbreviation process, language for special purposes, "first abbreviation explosion", "second abbreviation explosion".
Information about author: Kaletnik Antonina Andriyivna – PhD; associate professor of the department of history and stylistics of Ukrainian
language; Institute of philology; Kyiv national Taras Shevchenko university.
E-mail: style_m_k@ukr.net.