略語の様相 -若者語を中心に-

Abstract

This paper examines the shortened words in youth language by studying the words appearing in the Basic Knowledge of Modern Terminology in the editions from 2000 through 2012, and focusing, particularly, on the usages whose original form of the words is omitted. The words under examination are categorized into two categories: the ones whose original form before the ellipsis are a word and the ones whose original form are more than a word. As it becomes too complicated to simply classify the word type or elliptical expression of the words, whose original form before the abbreviation is phrase or sentence, I limited the scope of my examination to the ones whose original form is either a word or not. Word type and elliptical expression were categorized based on its original form prior to the ellipsis, and the elliptical expressions are once again classified into single ellipsis and multiple ellipsis. In doing so, this paper aims to understand the modality of shortened words in youth language by performing classification and analysis of the language usages.