Virtual words : language on the edge of science and technology /
"The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), sock puppet (an illicit online alternate ide...
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Author / Creator: | Keats, Jonathon. |
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Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. |
Description: | xi, 177 p. ; 22 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Technology -- Terminology. English language -- New words. English language -- Jargon. Linguistic change. English language -- Jargon. English language -- New words. Linguistic change. Technology -- Terminology. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8155352 |
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T11 .K4184 2011
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