Elsevier's Dictionary of Communicative Abbreviations (Hardcover, 1st ed)


Hardbound. This book will be invaluable in overcoming the growing problems posed - in English - by communicative abbreviations, autonomous entities originating in a noticeable reduction in the phonic corpus of the words or phrases they have stemmed from, as compared to graphical or standard abbreviations.The dictionary, having more than 5,700 entries, not only provides insight into etymological aspects, but also accurate meanings and contextualized samples mostly taken from original sources.This guide to this trend of the language covers extensive spectra of subject areas and will surely be an effective tool in the hands of English scholars.

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Hardbound. This book will be invaluable in overcoming the growing problems posed - in English - by communicative abbreviations, autonomous entities originating in a noticeable reduction in the phonic corpus of the words or phrases they have stemmed from, as compared to graphical or standard abbreviations.The dictionary, having more than 5,700 entries, not only provides insight into etymological aspects, but also accurate meanings and contextualized samples mostly taken from original sources.This guide to this trend of the language covers extensive spectra of subject areas and will surely be an effective tool in the hands of English scholars.

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Imprint

Elsevier Science Ltd

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Release date

December 1998

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Dimensions

230mm (L)

Format

Hardcover

Pages

372

Edition

1st ed

ISBN-13

978-0-444-82889-7

Barcode

9780444828897

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LSN

0-444-82889-3



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