Catherine Watts

Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science

New Words, New Worlds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9780367709839
• ISBN-10: 036770983X
• Artikelnr.: 67679481

Autorenporträt

Catherine Watts has worked in Higher Education for over forty years and is a Senior Fellow/International Teaching Fellow (Higher Education Academy, UK), affiliated to the universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Shanghai (China). Since 2013 she has written eight textbooks for language teaching/learning (all published by Routledge) which reflect Catherine's research interests.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One: What's in a word? Exploring word histories
Chapter Two: Selected background to nineteenth-century Britain
Chapter Three: What's in a name? Exploring scientific eponyms
Chapter Four: Focus on affixation
Chapter Five: The naming of diseases, conditions and medical developments in the nineteenth century
Chapter Six: Travelling the world and the naming of zoological specimens in the 1800s
Chapter Seven: Exploring the world of nineteenth-century botany
Chapter Eight: Palaeontology and geological time
Chapter Nine: The nineteenth-century pharmacy and new chemical terminology