Virtual words [[electronic resource] ] : language on the edge of science and technology / / Jonathon Keats
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 601/.4 |
| Soggetto topico: | Technology |
| English language - New words | |
| English language - Jargon | |
| Linguistic change | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Virtual words |
| ISBN: | 0-19-756282-5 |
| 1-282-76334-2 | |
| 9786612763342 | |
| 0-19-975093-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910458646603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
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