Virtual Words - Language From the Edge of Science and Technology

Zusatztext Keat's survey of the ways in which science and technology shape language is clever and humorous. Informationen zum Autor Jonathon Keats writes the Jargon Watch column for Wired Magazine, and has covered science, technology and language, as well as literature and the arts, for dozens of publications including the Washington Post, Popular Science, Scientific American, and Salon.com. He is the author of two novels, The Pathology of Lies and Lighter Than Vanity, and a story collection, The Book of the Unknown, and is therecipient of Yaddo and MacDowell fellowships. He lives in San Francisco and northern Italy. Klappentext Jonathon Keats's eagerly awaited monthly 'Jargon Watch' column in Wired Magazine"R discusses the remarkable new coinages that technology is bringing into the language! such as sock puppet (an illicit online alternate identity)! in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in a laboratory)! and unparticle (a form of matter lacking definite mass). In Virtual Words! Keats provides an enthralling exploration of how such words and phrases enter the language! what relationship they have to their subject matter! and why some! like blog! succeed while others! like flog (a fake web log)! fail. Zusammenfassung Technology provides an unusually active laboratory for the study of linguistic innovation. Virtual Words consists of short essays, covering 28 recently coined words, that consider how words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why they succeed or fail.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathon Keats, Jonathon (Author of the Jargon Watch Column Keats, Keats Jonathon
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.11.2010
• EAN: 9780195398540
• ISBN: 978-0-19-539854-0
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General, SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects, Language: history & general works, Impact of science & technology on society, Impact of science and technology on society, Language: history and general works, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies