Virtual words: language on the edge of science and technology
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Oxford University Press
2010
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Beschreibung: | Includes index. |
Umfang: | x, 177 S. |
ISBN: | 9780195398540 |
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adam_text | VIRTUAL WORDS
/ KEATS, JONATHON
: 2010
TABLE OF CONTENTS / INHALTSVERZEICHNIS
INTRODUCTION
I. BUILDING BLOCKS
II. SCIENTIFIC TERMINOLOGY
III. TECHNOLOGICAL TERMINOLOGY
IV. POLEMICAL AND PROMOTIONAL LANGUAGE
V. CULTURAL COMMENTARY AND EUPHEMISM
VI. JARGON AND SLANG
INDEX.
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 EXEMPLARY WORD, ITS DEFINITION, ORIGIN,
CONTEXT, AND SIGNIFICANCE. EXAMPLES RANGE FROM CYBRID (A HUMAN-ANIMAL
HYBRID EMBRYO) AND UNPARTICLE (A FORM OF MATTER LACKING DEFINITE MASS)
TO GENE FOUNDRY (A LABORATORY WHERE MICROBES ARE BUILT) AND BLACKHAWK (A
COMBATIVE HELICOPTER PARENT). TOGETHER THESE WORDS PROVIDE NOT ONLY A
SURVEY OF TECHNOLOGICAL INVENTION AND ITS CONSEQUENCES, BUT ALSO A
FASCINATING GLIMPSE OF NOVEL LANGUAGE AS IT COMES INTO BEING. NO ONE
KNOWS THIS EMERGING LEXICAL TERRAIN BETTER THAN JONATHON KEATS, AND IN
WRITING THAT IS AS INVENTIVE AND ENGAGING AS THE LANGUAGE IT DESCRIBES,
VIRTUAL WORDS OFFERS ENDLESS DELIGHTS FOR WORD-LOVERS, TECHNOPHILES, AND
ANYONE INTRIGUED BY THE ESSENTIAL HUMAN OBSESSION WITH NAMING
PROVIDED BY PUBLISHER.
ADVANCING RAPIDLY, GENERATING NEW WORDS IN TANDEM WITH NEW IDEAS,
TECHNOLOGY PROVIDES AN UNUSUALLY ACTIVE LABORATORY FOR THE STUDY OF
LINGUISTIC INNOVATION, CHURNING OUT TERMS LIKE UNPARTICLES, CYBRID,
DIRT STYLE, LUDOLOGY, AND FEMTOCELL. VIRTUAL WORDS PUTS A SAMPLING
OF THIS TERMINOLOGY INTO PERSPECTIVE. ORGANIZED INTO SECTIONS LIKE
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY, EUPHEMISM, AND POLEMIC, SIGNAL TO NOISE CONSISTS OF
SHORT ESSAYS, COVERING ABOUT 100 WORDS. SOME WORDS, SUCH AS MEAT
PUPPET AND W00T, HAVE ALREADY FOUND THEIR NICHE, WHILE OTHERS, SUCH
AS COLLABULARY AND HEDONOMICS, ARE PAST OBSOLETE. OTHERS STILL, SUCH
AS NEUROETHICS AND EXOPOLITICS, REMAIN OF LESS CERTAIN FATE. EACH
WORD PROVIDES AN OCCASION FOR CONSIDERING THE LANGUAGE OF TECHNOLOGY
FROM A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE: HOW WORDS GET COINED, WHAT RELATIONSHIP
THEY HAVE TO THEIR SUBJECT MATTER, AND WHY THEY SUCCEED OR FAIL.
TOGETHER THESE SHORT ESSAYS OFFER NOT ONLY A SURVEY OF INVENTION AND ITS
CONSEQUENCES, BUT ALSO AN AMPLE STOCK OF NOVEL LANGUAGE CAUGHT IN
ACTION. VIRTUAL WORDS WILL APPEAL TO GENERAL READERS INTERESTED IN THE
INTERPLAY BETWEEN WORDS AND IDEAS IN OUR FAST-PACED, TECH-DRIVEN,
USE-IT-OR-LOSE-IT SOCIETY
PROVIDED BY PUBLISHER.
DIESES SCHRIFTSTUECK WURDE MASCHINELL ERZEUGT.
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