New York, NY Oxford University Press, USA 2010 Hard cover Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 177 p. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2010010245 Type of material Book Personal name Keats, Jonathon. Main title Virtual words: language on the edge of science and technology / Jonathon Keats. Published/Created Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. Description xi, 177 p. : ill.; 23 cm. ISBN 9780195398540 (hardback) LC classification T11. K4184 2011 Summary "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 identity), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in a laboratory) enter our language? In Virtual Words: Language from the Edge of Science and Technology, Jonathon Keats, author of Wired Magazine's monthly Jargon Watch column, investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced tech-driven use-it-or-lose-it society. In 45 illuminating short essays, Keats examines how such words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why some, like blog, succeed while others, like flog, fail. Divided into broad categories--such as euphemism, polemic, jargon, and slang, in addition to scientific and technological neologisms--chapters each consider one ...

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