Acronyms and neighboring categories in the language of photography

This article focuses on the acronyms and related items, namely abbreviations, alphabetisms, blends, clippings in language of photography, a field that has not yet been previously examined. Numerous studies have dealt with these word-formation processes general and, although to lesser extent, different specialized languages. To date, despite ubiquitous presence photography modern world, no research addressed use categories as one many fields ESP. paper intends fill this gap identify, analyze classify acronyms, discourse focusing their structure characteristics. fulfill objective corpus-based approach was followed. The data gathered from professional blogs providing authentic up-to-date lexis. results suggest abound photography. Although there are (e.g., lomo, gobo), alphabetisms DSLR, TLR, HDR), abbreviations Mpx, fps, mm), blends (squinch, digicam), photog, cam, pano), apart peripheral cases (e.g. 4K, B&W, RAW, L*a*b*) hybrid PNG, Jpeg, EOS, GAS).