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Virtual Words: Language from the Edge of Science and Technology
Keats, Jonathon (author of the Jargon Watch column for Wired magazi, author of the Jargon Watch column for Wired magazi)
Technology provides an unusually active laboratory for the study of linguistic innovation. Virtual Words consists of short essays, covering 28 recently coined words, that consider how words get coined, what relationship they have to their subject matter, and why they succeed or fail.
240 pages, Illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | October 19, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780195398540 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 190 |
| Dimensions | 151 × 216 × 18 mm · 340 g |
| Language | English |
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