TY - JOUR
TI - Lexical economization in French and in Polish
AU - Piechnik, Iwona
TI - Lexical economization in French and in Polish
AB - 
	The article presents contemporary tendencies in French and Polish to reduce the volume of words
	by the use of abbreviations (apocope and apheresis) and acronyms (initialisms, words from initial
	sounds, blends). At present, these tendencies are intensified by the increased speed of communication
	(facilitated by new technologies) as well as by the influence of English, which tends to abbreviate its
	vocabulary. By comparing French and Polish yet one can observe that French abbreviates words more
	often (it showed such tendencies earlier too), while Polish uses rather acronyms and contractions instead.
VL - Volume 9 (2009)
IS - Volume 9, Issue 1
PY - 2009
SN - 1732-8705
C1 - 2084-3917
SP - 180
EP - 189
UR - https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/romanica-cracoviensia/article/economisation-lexicale-en-francais-et-en-polonais