Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology

by Jonathon Keats

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), crowdsourcing (outsourcing to the masses), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in an industrial vat) enter our language?

In Virtual Words: Language on the Edge of Science and Technology, Jonathon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195398548
• ISBN13: 9780195398540
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 190 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.7" x 8.3"