Language change and nineteenth-century science: new words, new worlds
"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...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph |
| Language: | English |
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New York London
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
2023
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| Series: | Routledge studies in cultural history
135 |
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Routledge studies in cultural history (135)
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| Online Access: | Verlag, Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738303336373730393834367C7C434F50.jpg?sq=2
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| Author Notes: | Catherine Watts |
Table of Contents:
- What's in a word? Exploring word histories
- Selected background to nineteenth-century Britain
- What's in a name? Exploring scientific eponyms
- Focus on affixation
- The naming of diseases, conditions and medical developments in the 19th century
- Travelling the world and the naming of zoological specimens in the 1800s
- Exploring the world of nineteenth-century botany
- Palaeontology and geological time
- The nineteenth-century pharmacy and new chemical terminology.