eBook Details

Virtual Words

Author(s): Jonathon Keats

ClubCoins Needed: 239

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Release date: 2010-10-18

Genre: Language: history & general works

Type: Adobe PDF

Pages: 192

ISBN: 9780199750931

Description

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.

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