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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458646603321

Autore

Keats Jonathon

Titolo

Virtual words [[electronic resource] ] : language on the edge of science and technology / / Jonathon Keats

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010

ISBN

0-19-756282-5

1-282-76334-2

9786612763342

0-19-975093-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (190 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

601/.4

Soggetti

Technology

English language - New words

English language - Jargon

Linguistic change

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Discovery; PART II: Innovation; PART III: Commentary; PART IV: Promotion; PART V: Slang; PART VI: Neologism; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Keats's monthly 'Jargon Watch' column in Wired Magazine'R discusses the new coinages that technology is bringing into the language such as sock puppet (an illicit online alternate identity). Here, Keats provides an exploration of how such words and phrases enter the language.