English sports terms: abbreviation

Yarmolinets Larisa Grigorievna, Anisimova Olga Borisovna, Dushko Marina Sergeevna

The article discusses widespread use of complex multicomponent identifying terms in the field of sports discourse, the need to transform them by abbreviation in order to implementation of the principles of saving linguistic means and replenishment of the terminological system of sports. The analysis of English-language abbreviations in different sports based on the materials of Internet sites is presented, which allows classifying the English-language terms of sports discourse as follows: initial or letter abbreviations; truncated words; mergers; hybrid abbreviations.

Keywords:terms, term formation, abbreviations, theory of abbreviation, structural classification of abbreviated units, sports discourse, sport denotations and concepts, acronyms, acronyms, truncations, splices, hybrid abbreviations.