Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science

New Words, New Worlds

By:

Catherine Watts

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Hardback

Series:

Routledge Studies in Cultural History

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Have you ever looked at a word and thought: ‘I wonder where that came from’? You might well find the answer in this book, which considers the origin and formation of some of the many thousands of new words that were coined in English during the nineteenth century in the broad field of ‘science’. Changes in society are often accompanied by the need to find names for such changes which, in turn, has an impact on how the language develops as a result. The British Industrial Revolution ushered in a new era of language change, which led to many new coinages in the English language reflecting scientific knowledge as it developed. Many of these neologisms belong to specialist vocabulary, but others do not, and it is these lay coinages which form the focus of this book and are located within their social, cultural and historical backgrounds. Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense.

Author Biography:

Catherine Watts has worked in Higher Education for over forty years and is a Senior Fellow/International Teaching Fellow (Higher Education Academy, UK), affiliated to the universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Shanghai (China). Since 2013 she has written eight textbooks for language teaching/learning (all published by Routledge) which reflect Catherine’s research interests.

Release date NZ

June 5th, 2023

Author

Catherine Watts

Series

Routledge Studies in Cultural History

Pages

248

Audience

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Illustrations

25 Halftones, black and white; 25 Illustrations, black and white

ISBN-13

9780367709839

Product ID

36273101

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