AVIATION ABBREVIATIONS IN PROFESSIONAL ENGLISH LANGUAGE OF A TOUR OPERATOR
The subject of the research is the features and characteristics of abbreviations in modern English, more precisely, aviation abbreviations, which are full-fledged units of language and thinking, they participate in all the thinking processes of a tour operator, categorize reality in the tourism sphere, verbalize the key concepts which are involved in the process of storage and transmission of information, reflect the various elements of professional activity. The article defines the role of aviation abbreviations in professional foreign language vocabulary, clarifies their meaning, discusses their cognitive and semantic characteristics and the reasons for their increased use by professionals. In the process of work, the following research methods are used: descriptive, conceptual, semantic, pragmalinguistic, classification method, semantic and cognitive field method. The scientific novelty of the research is determined by the fact that for the first time a comprehensive cognitive and pragmatic study of aviation abbreviations in the professional English-language communication of the tour operator has been undertaken. As a result, the semantic role and functions of aviation abbreviations were determined, their thematic features in the implementation of communication strategies in professional tourism activities were disclosed.