【正文】 on Method ............................................................................................. 14 Summary......................................................................................................................... 14 5. Pragmatic Function of English Abbreviation................................................................... 15 Simpleness, Speediness .................................................................................................. 15 Eyecatching, Catchy Hooks .......................................................................................... 15 Strong Description .......................................................................................................... 15 Rhetoric Function ........................................................................................................... 15 Summary......................................................................................................................... 16 Conclusion ............................................................................................................................... 17 Citation .................................................................................................................................... 18 Reference ................................................................................................................................. 19 Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................. 20 黑河學院 本科生 畢業(yè)論文（設計） I Abstract A lot of English abbreviation production and use reflect a sharp change of modern society, the science and technology progress and cultural education leap and the rapid development of business, etc. The seemingly simple abbreviations in position structure, pronunciation, and writing have many rules, and it is the unique function to use a language. The study of these rules can reduce and avoid chaos or mistakes when we use them. Keywords: English abbreviation rule pragmatic function translation 黑河學院 本科生 畢業(yè)論文（設計） II 摘要 英語 縮略詞的大量產(chǎn)生和使用折射出現(xiàn)代社會的急劇變化，科學技術的飛躍進步和文化教育事業(yè)等的迅猛發(fā)展。研究其規(guī)律可以減少和避免使用時出現(xiàn)混亂或錯誤。 on the other hand, it is due to fast development of social needs. English abbreviations are used in all aspects of the social life from the modern science and technology fields to the medical, foreign trade, education, economic and political. It likes a mirror which reflects social development in all aspects. In the modern era, people who use language munication need economic and efficient way to exchange information. Abbreviation use less symbols, information, just to meet the modern demand. The abbreviation reflects the modern production of large numbers of the rapid social change. This paper analyzes the origin of the English abbreviations, constitution, writing rules and pragmatic functions. Therefore, we can use English abbreviations more reasonably. 黑河學院 本科生 畢業(yè)論文（設計） 2 1. The Origin and Characteristics of English Abbreviation The Origin of the English Abbreviations Before the 1940s, the number of English abbreviation only a little, but with the birth of the first allelectronic digital puter created by 1946 and at the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, English abbreviation increases④ . Abbreviation is a mon linguistic phenomenon in the world today. But the abbreviation of English is in a marginal position in foreign country for a long time, which is not mensurate with the rapid development of the abbreviations. In the late twentieth century, western scholars began to use cognitive linguistics, puter linguistics and psychological linguistics on the English abbreviations indepth study, and prove the abbreviation to the value of linguistics research. Today, he has bee a millions of army. Especially in recent 20 years is the fastest 20 years of English abbreviation growing. The main causes of English contractions are the following: The Objective World Factors With the fast development of national economies, the rapid progress of science and technology, and the rapid changes in the social life, all require fast, simple language to reflect the plexity of new things and social phenomena. Abbreviation appears more and more in all areas of human life, because abbreviations can be used less information and space to express the original meaning of the words. Social development, especially the rapid development of science and technology on the widespread application of abbreviations has been the extremely vital role. 黑河學院 本科生 畢業(yè)論文（設計） 3 The Subjective World Factors With psychology of people who ask briefness, Anderson, Cognitive psychologist, thinks information processing ability of people is limited. In order to effectively deal with plex munication, people need to have some abilities to show the subject initiative, such as, summary and simplification of the information, anization of the strategy. The munication of modern social information are more and more frequent, so that this requires more and more economic information carrier which can use the most succinct information symbol transfer as much information as possible. The rich meaning of letters abbreviation just meet the people39。s new psychological and the arrival of the economic society, in order to adapt yourself to the petitive society, people began to consciously care what happened around the world and to absorb new information initiatively. English abbreviations represent new things, new honored, new information of letters abbreviations, such as PK (play kill, against / challenge), ATM (automatic teller machine, automatic teller machines), etc. It is easy to be accepted and used by people. Language World Factors Various element