Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

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.

Contenu

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