| "Letter words" is a hot topic in today's Chinese language." Readability" is a topic which has never been paid enough attention in news language in our country. These two topics are researched here.One of the basic characteristic of Chinese is that it is expressed in characters. However, these latest years, a large quantity of letter words appear in mass mediums. Such as: GDP, BOT, ABS, DVD, IO, WC....These letter words never appeared in our mother tongue education. A lot of people know nothing about it. Anyway they entered every field of our life at unprecedented speed and in large quantity. Therefore letter words become a hot topic with a number of dispute, of course they also become a inevitable problem in our news language research.News is something newly happened, it must be known and published immediately to meet the satisfaction of the acceptors. It must be accessible to as many people as possible. So it must be easily understood. How well can news acceptors understand the news language is its problem of "readability".The readability in news language has the same problem with the western news language, it also has "its own problem" because of the character of Chinese. Letter words can be considered as a conspicuous problem produced in the contradiction between the existing character of Chinese and the social culture development. For the readability of news language in today's China, we think, the letter words is a problem which needs to be solved mostly urgently.While we meditate on the habitual research pattern of our news language and redefine the letter words, we put forward the thesis here:" Readability of Letter Words in News Language in Our Country", among which there are:--Can Chinese acceptors of news language understand letter words?--How do letter words influence the readability of Chinese news language?--What kind of acceptors can understand letter words?--Which kind of letter words do acceptors comparatively understand or don'tunderstand?--Should letter words be accepted by Chinese news language?--How should Chinese news language accept letter words? Is there any principlein using letter words?To solve these problems, we should basically know about the present state of letter words using in the mass medium in our country. We investigated all letter words appeared in 15 newspapers in our country in August 2002, we found 2266 letter words are applied for 6186 times. Among them, the mostly often used are WTO, IT, GDP, NBA, VCD, TBM, DVD, CEO and so on.Having gotten the statistics of the rate in using each of all 2266 letter words, we chose the first mostly often used 50 letter words, designed a "measure form of letter words readability", conducted a survey of 100 people with different degree ofeducation to see how well they understood those letter words. As a result, we found out the importance of letter words in language can't, of course, be neglected, but, its readability is not promising.On the base of that, we brought out some tactic and conditions in using letter words in our news language.
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