Language as a Scientific Tool (eBook, ePUB)

Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions
Redaktion: MacLeod, Miles; Smirnova, Ekaterina; Surman, Jan; Sumillera, Rocío G.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The influence of language on scholarship has often been analyzed, ranging from its influence on epistemology to issues of global language and its constraints. This volume focuses on historical case studies at the intersection of language and science, dealing with a variety of topics: the relationship between general language and the subcategories of scientific languages, the connection between the emergence of national languages and the development of science within national settings, the relations between the creation of scientific languages and the appearance of new scientific disciplines, and reflection on the role and possibilities of language by scientists themselves.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CY, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, IRL, I, LT, L, LR, M, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317327493
• Artikelnr.: 44758470

Autorenporträt

Miles MacLeod is Assistant Professor for Philosophy of Science at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Rocío G. Sumillera is Assistant Professor of English Literature at the University of Valencia. Jan Surman is Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Leibniz Graduate School at the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe in Marburg. Ekaterina Smirnova is currently affiliated with Sciences Po (Paris) and the STS Center in EUSP.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Miles MacLeod, Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Ekaterina
Smirnova 2. Modern Science and the Spirit of Language, Literature and
Philology Matthias Dörries Part 1: Language, Rhetoric and History 3. How
Language Became a Tool: The Reconceptualisation of Language and the
Empirical Turn in Seventeenth-Century Britain Miles MacLeod 4. The
Beginnings of Scientific Terminology in Polish: K¿os's Algorithmus (1538)
and Grzepski's Geometria (1566) Jerzy Biniewicz 5. Language and History in
the Context of the Société des Observateurs de l'Homme (1799-1804) Martin
Herrnstadt and Laurens Schlicht 6. Contested Boundaries: How Scientists
Deal with Uncertainty and Ambiguity in Language Priya Venkatesan Hays Part
2: The Creation of Scientific Terminology 7. Reading Astrolabes in Medieval
Hebrew Josefina Rodríguez Arribas 8. Opyt in the Social Lexicon of
Modernity: The Experience/Experiment Dichotomy Ekaterina Smirnova 9.
Linguistic Precision and Scientific Accuracy: Searching for the Proper Name
of "Oxygen" in French, Danish and Polish Jan Surman 10. Mathematical
Machines: Automating Thinking? Helena Durnová Part 3: Imagining Universal
Languages 11. 17th-Century British Projects for a Universal Language and
Their Reception in the Augustan Age: The Cases of John Wilkins and Jonathan
Swift Rocío G. Sumillera 12. One Second Language for Mankind: The Rise and
Decline of the World Auxiliary Language Movement in the Belle Époque
Markus Krajewski 13. Impacts of a Global Language on Science: Are There
Disadvantages? Scott L. Montgomery