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Autore |
Keats Jonathon |
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Titolo |
Virtual words [[electronic resource] ] : language on the edge of science and technology / / Jonathon Keats |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
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0-19-756282-5 |
1-282-76334-2 |
9786612763342 |
0-19-975093-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (190 p.) |
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Collana |
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Oxford scholarship online |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Technology |
English language - New words |
English language - Jargon |
Linguistic change |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Discovery; PART II: Innovation; PART III: Commentary; PART IV: Promotion; PART V: Slang; PART VI: Neologism; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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Record Nr. |
UNINA9910480045403321 |
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Titolo |
Quasiconformal mappings, Riemann surfaces, and Teichmuller spaces : AMS special session in honor of Clifford J. Earle, October 2-3, 2010, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York / / Yunping Jiang, Sudeb Mitra, editors |
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Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2012] |
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©2012 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (386 p.) |
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Collana |
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Contemporary mathematics ; ; volume 575 |
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Disciplina |
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Geometric analysis |
Quasiconformal mappings |
Riemann surfaces |
Teichmüller spaces |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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""Preface""; ""Some remarks on singly degenerate Kleinian groups""; ""1. Thurston changes the nature of the playing field""; ""2. Preliminaries""; ""3. Fuchsian Groups and Collapsed Laminations""; ""4. Torsion-free singly degenerate groups and the quotient 3-manifold""; ""5. Known results about the limit sets of singly degenerate groups""; ""6. Local connectivity and its consequenses""; ""7. Bringing it all together in a picture""; ""8. The Sullivan Dictionary and local connectedness""; ""References""; ""On a theorem of Kas and Schlessinger""; ""1. Preliminaries"" |
""2. Triangle groups and triangle -coverings"" |
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