LEADER 00000cam a2200661Ka 4500 001 ocn667231105 003 OCoLC 005 20160527041009.9 006 m o d 007 cr cnu---unuuu 008 100930s2010 nyu o 001 0 eng d 019 729020918|a816583820|a819502981|a821631317 020 9780199750931|q(electronic book) 020 0199750939|q(electronic book) 035 (OCoLC)667231105|z(OCoLC)729020918|z(OCoLC)816583820 |z(OCoLC)819502981|z(OCoLC)821631317 040 N$T|beng|epn|cN$T|dEBLCP|dOCLCQ|dMHW|dOCLCQ|dDEBSZ|dOCLCF |dOCLCQ|dIDEBK|dOCLCQ 049 RIDW 050 4 T11|b.K4184 2010eb 072 7 TEC|x000000|2bisacsh 082 04 601/.4|222 090 T11|b.K4184 2010eb 100 1 Keats, Jonathon.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/ n98071002 245 10 Virtual words :|blanguage on the edge of science and technology /|cJonathon Keats. 264 1 New York :|bOxford University Press,|c2010. 300 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages) 336 text|btxt|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 340 |gpolychrome|2rdacc 347 text file|2rdaft 500 Includes index. 505 0 Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Discovery; PART II: Innovation; PART III: Commentary; PART IV: Promotion; PART V: Slang; PART VI: Neologism; Index. 520 "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), sock puppet (an illicit online alternate identity), or in vitro meat (chicken and beef grown in a laboratory) enter our language? In Virtual Words: Language from the Edge of Science and Technology, Jonathon Keats, author of Wired Magazine's monthly Jargon Watch column, investigates the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced tech-driven use-it-or-lose-it society. In 45 illuminating short essays, Keats examines how such words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why some, like blog, succeed while others, like flog, fail. Divided into broad categories--such as euphemism, polemic, jargon, and slang, in addition to scientific and technological neologisms-- chapters each consider one exemplary word, its definition, origin, context, and significance. Examples range from cybrid (a human-animal hybrid embryo) and unparticle (a form of matter lacking definite mass) to gene foundry (a laboratory where microbes are built) and blackhawk (a combative helicopter parent). Together these words provide not only a survey of technological invention and its consequences, but also a fascinating glimpse of novel language as it comes into being. No one knows this emerging lexical terrain better than Jonathon Keats, and in writing that is as inventive and engaging as the language it describes, Virtual Words offers endless delights for word-lovers, technophiles, and anyone intrigued by the essential human obsession with naming"-- |cProvided by publisher. 520 "Advancing rapidly, generating new words in tandem with new ideas, technology provides an unusually active laboratory for the study of linguistic innovation, churning out terms like "unparticles," "cybrid," "dirt style," "ludology," and "femtocell." VIRTUAL WORDS puts a sampling of this terminology into perspective. Organized into sections like Science, Technology, Euphemism, and Polemic, Signal to Noise consists of short essays, covering about 100 words. Some words, such as "meat puppet" and "w00t," have already found their niche, while others, such as "collabulary" and "hedonomics," are past obsolete. Others still, such as "neuroethics" and "exopolitics," remain of less certain fate. Each word provides an occasion for considering the language of technology from a different perspective: how words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why they succeed or fail. Together these short essays offer not only a survey of invention and its consequences, but also an ample stock of novel language caught in action. VIRTUAL WORDS will appeal to general readers interested in the interplay between words and ideas in our fast-paced, tech-driven, use-it-or-lose-it society"--|cProvided by publisher. 588 0 Print version record. 590 eBooks on EBSCOhost|bEBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America 650 0 Technology|vTerminology.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85133175 650 0 English language|xNew words.|0https://id.loc.gov/ authorities/subjects/sh85148118 650 0 English language|xJargon.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85043598 650 0 Linguistic change.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ subjects/sh85077214 650 7 Technology|xTerminology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/1145239 650 7 English language|xNew words.|2fast|0https:// id.worldcat.org/fast/911399 650 7 English language|xJargon.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/ fast/911323 650 7 Linguistic change.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/ 999167 655 0 Electronic books|xTerminology. 655 4 Electronic books. 655 4 Electronic books|xTerminology. 655 7 Terminology.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423880 655 7 Dictionaries.|2lcgft|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/ genreForms/gf2014026086 655 7 Dictionaries.|2fast|0https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423826 776 08 |iPrint version:|aKeats, Jonathon.|tVirtual words.|dNew York : Oxford University Press, 2010|z9780195398540|w(DLC) 2010010245|w(OCoLC)515462587 856 40 |uhttps://rider.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http:// search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site& db=nlebk&AN=336212|zOnline eBook. 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