STRUCTURAL AND SEMANTIC FEATURES OF ENGLISH IT ACRONYMS FROM COMPTIA A+ VOCABULARY
Kuzyakin Aleksandr Sergeevich
Moscow Institute of Railway Engineering
Abstract. The author considers the content of the notion "main IT acronym" from the point of view of structural models of abbreviation, word building techniques, role and place of constituent elements in the semantic structure of the whole word. The author pays special attention to the cases of semantic variation in IT terms and processes accompanying the assimilation of IT terms into the General English language.
Key words and phrases: аббревиатура, акроним, IT, словообразовательные модели, значение термина, ассоциативные оттенки значения, abbreviation, acronym, IT terms, word building models, terminological meaning, associative shades of meaning
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