摘 要

缩略语是指一个词或短语的简略书写符号。人们为方便交际与沟通，在多种场合或情况下会使用缩略语。现代社会生活节奏不断加快，与之相适应的语言形式-缩略语的大量产生成为必然，速度至上，效率优先，使得越来越多的人开始关注并且使用一些英文词汇或短语的缩略语。本文在探究其分类的基础上，探究其自身一些特有的文化现象、形成规则以及使用技巧与现代社会发展所带来的缩略语的演化，旨在对缩略语应用研究的基础上，探讨其分类、最近的趋势、使用的规范性，使我们对它作为不断变化发展中的现象有更深入的整体认识与鉴赏。

关键词：缩略语；文化；快捷；演化
 
Abstract

Abbreviations are the short forms of words or phrases. People use them in many situations to facilitate communication and transmission. The pace of life has been accelerated in the modern life, and as a lingual phenomenon to meet this situation, abbreviations developed quickly. More and more people start to pay attention to the abbreviations of English words or phrases for they are efficient and effective.
This article researches into the cultural phenomenon, the usage skills and the development of the abbreviations in modern time on the basis of the study on its forming methods. It is aimed at enabling us to learn it as a whole and a continuous subject as to get a better understanding and appreciation after dealing with the categories of forming, the general characteristics, the recent trends of the abbreviation, and the usage of the abbreviation based on the use of abbreviations.

Keywords: abbreviation; culture; efficiency; evolvement

Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1Definition of Abbreviation
In the modern world, everyone is in pursuit of an effective and efficient way of life. As the most common method of communication, the language plays an important role in simplifying the processes of delivering information. With the booming of the economy and the remarkable development of science and technology, the availability of modern means of quick and convenient ways of communication increase the transmission speeds. However, People are casting about for the means of improving the language including the words, phrases themselves. In such case, the abbreviation gets more attention.
An abbreviation is defined as a shortened form of a written word or phrase used in place of the full form.For example, UN stands for the United Nations, and A.D. is the abbreviation for “advertisement”. It is just this simple style of expressing information that has a complicated classification. It is usually formed by such a method: taking one or more letters from each word of its full form. Thus it has many kinds of abbreviations, or we can say its forming method is various. Many branches are included in it such as acronym and so on.