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100 1 Keats, Jonathon.|0https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/
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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)
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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.
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