1st Edition
Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science New Words, New Worlds
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
Index
Biography
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.
This book reads like a journey, navigating meanings and sources from many different social and cultural contexts. As well as the fundamental need to classify and name in order to make sense of our world, we all engage in wordplay to actively create and enrich the language. Great anecdotes, charming pictures.
- Dr Jane Jones at Kings College
