ANALIZA KRATICA U GIMNASTICI U ENGLESKOM JEZIKU

The aim of this final paper was to analyse the sample of 233 acronyms and abbreviations used in the English language in gymnastics, with regard to the domain which the acronym/abbreviation relates to (gymnastic on the one hand and the wider domain of kinesiology on the other), the source from which an acronym/abbreviation was extracted (code of points/rules of competition in the English language; academic articles in English from the Science of Gymnastics Journal) and the length of an acronym/abbreviation. Both in gymnastics and in the wider domain of kinesiology two- and three-character acronyms/abbreviations prevailed. A similar results was obtained for the length of acronyms/abbreviations extracted from the Codes of Points, i.e. competition rules and from the Science of Gymnastics Journal. The Pearson chi-square test results pointed that as for the length of acronyms/abbreviations, there was no statistically significant difference between the two domain sub-categories – gymnastics and the wider domain of kinesiology. On the other hand, the results of the Pearson hi-square test proved the existance between the two sub-categories of the source – competition rules found on the official site of the FIG and the articles published in the Science of Gymnastics Journal in favour of the two-, three- and four-character acronyms/abbreviations from the academic journal in question.