Practical part

Shortening (including abbreviation) in communication is the process or result of representing a word or group of words by a shorter form of the word or phrase. The problems of shortened lexical units as specific language phenomena in modern languages attracted attention of many researchers. These problems are considered to numerous articles and separate researches of Russian and foreign authors.

I. Introduction.
1.1. Common characteristics of the course work
1.2. General definition of homonyms
II. The Theoretical Part
2.1. Shortening of spoken words
2.2. Graphical abbreviations and acronyms
2.3. Abbreviations as the major type of shortenings
2.4. Specific groups of shortening
III. Practical part
3.1. “Cyber-English” for informal text messages, chat room chatting
3.2. The types of abbreviations on the newspaper “The USA today”
3.3. The modern type of shortening to abbreviate the telephone numbers
Conclusion
Bibliography