PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Fridrichová, Radka
TI  - 
DP  - 2011 Dec 1
TA  - Romanica Olomucensia
PG  - 101--112
VI  - 23
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/ro.2011.015
IS  - 18034136
AB  - A wide variety of abbreviations are now present in our reading material and everyday speech. The trend has been incorporated into contemporary French. Time and space is vital. This process takes several different forms which can result in different meanings. The paper covers four different types of abbreviations in this article: initials, acronym, general abbreviations, and truncation.