An Acronymical Corpus? was Re: Call for papers

On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, John F. Sowa <sowa <at> bestweb.net> wrote:

This post and its follow-ups got me thinking about whether a corpus exists
of entire conversations conducted using acronyms. Readily visible in
text-speek/SMS of course but I was thinking of more real-world settings.

> The New York Times has an editorial policy that every acronym must
> be written in full at first use.  That is a good practice to follow
> with sentences like the following:
>
>  > We welcome papers that examine LSP in written and oral discourse
>  > and genres from a wide variety of methodologies and theoretical
>  > frameworks, including interdisciplinary research.
>
> The pointer at the end goes to a file that has the full phrase,
> Language for Specific Purposes, and cites a reference in 2006
> as the source.  Perhaps the in-crowd might know that, but if they
> want to attract people from different "theoretical frameworks,"
> they might consider the NYT style.
>
> Furthermore, the full announcement doesn't mention the older
> term 'sublanguage', which has many more hits on Google,
> including a Wikipedia article.  An even older term is
> Wittgenstein's 'language games'.
>
> By the way, the first hit on Google Scholar that relates
> the acronym LSP to language is to a paper that talks about
> Line Spectrum Pairs for speech analysis-synthesis.
>
> John Sowa
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Regards, Trevor

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