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Virtual words : language on the edge of science and technology /

"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 ide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keats, Jonathon
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I: Discovery; PART II: Innovation; PART III: Commentary; PART IV: Promotion; PART V: Slang; PART VI: Neologism; Index.