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• Title:Language change and nineteenth-century science : new words, new worlds / Catherine Watts.
  
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• Author/Creator:Watts, Catherine.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Taylor & Francis eBooks EBA
  
• Published/Created:New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
  

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  • Call Number: Q226
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Language--History.
  English language--19th century.
  English language--Word formation.
  Linguistic change.
  
• Subject(s):Electronic books.
  
• Description:1 online resource
  
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• Summary:"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, have 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"-- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780367709839
  9780367709846
  
• 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.