Virtual words : language on the edge of science and technology /

"The technological realm provides an unusually active laboratory not only for new ideas and products but also for the remarkable linguistic innovations that accompany and describe them. How else would words like qubit (a unit of quantum information), sock puppet (an illicit online alternate ide...

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Main Author: Keats, Jonathon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central