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The Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning

Compiled with the assistance of Helmut P. Hagge, Birga Müller, Jürgen Sudhölter and Charles B. Thurston

by Udo O.H. Jung (Author)
©1991 Textbook 824 Pages

Summary

This dictionary is two things in one: an alphabetical compilation of acronyms and abbreviations together with their full forms and an inverted index, which gives the user thematic access to the information contained in the data base. The more than 13.000 entries are an attempt to lighten the burden of language teachers and applied linguists, translators and interpreters, librarians and administrators, whose job it is to mediate in and between language communities in daily or intermittent contact with the scourge of acronyms and abbreviations. A range of additional features distinguishes this dictionary from its competitors: More than 1200 addresses (if the acronym stands for an organization/institution); more than 3000 bibliographic references to the concepts behind the short forms; ample crossreferencing to related entries; a listing of new word coinages on the basis of acronyms.

Details

Pages
824
Publication Year
1991
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631906781
Language
English
Published
Frankfurt/M., Bern, New York, Paris, 1991. 2 vol., 824 pp.

Biographical notes

Udo O.H. Jung (Author)

The Authors: Udo O.H. Jung was educated at the Universities of Freiburg and Edinburgh (Scotland). He obtained a Ph.D. from the University of Kiel where he was Director of the Language Laboratories from 1970 to 1977. He spent time on the staff of the Foreign Language Research Information Center of Marburg University before he became Director of Bayreuth University's Language Center in 1989. His wife Heidrun was also educated at Freiburg University. She is a free-lance translator and foreign-language documentalist.

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Title: The Dictionary of Acronyms and Abbreviations in Applied Linguistics and Language Learning