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Virtual words : language on the edge of science and technology / Jonathon Keats.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keats, Jonathon, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Technology--Terminology.
- Technology.
- English language--New words.
- English language.
- English language--Jargon.
- Linguistic change.
- Genre:
- Terminology.
- Dictionaries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 177 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Keats's monthly 'Jargon Watch' column in Wired Magazine'R discusses the new coinages that technology is bringing into the language such as sock puppet (an illicit online alternate identity). Here, Keats provides an exploration of how such words and phrases enter the language.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2011.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 9780197562826
- 0197562825
- OCLC:
- 1222774999
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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