ZIPF’S LAW IMPLEMENTATION BY THE MATERIAL OF THE ENGLISH AND GERMAN LANGUAGES
Orekhova Ol'ga Mikhailovna
Novosibirsk State University of Economics and Management
Abstract. The implementation of G. K. Zipf’s law in linguistics in the context of language means economy is considered. The author pays attention to the functional significance of abbreviations and acronyms in the English and German languages. The article mentions the topical in modern linguistics position of Zipf’s law on the principle of least effort as the main psychological basis for the explanation of such phenomena in the language as abbreviation and acronym.
Key words and phrases: закон Ципфа, принцип наименьших усилий, закон количества информации, аббревиатура, акроним, Zipf’s law, principle of least effort, law on amount of information, abbreviation, acronym
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