Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science

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

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• História da medicina
• Sociolinguística
• Estudos literários: c 1800 a c 1900
• História social e cultural
• História da Ciência
• Idioma: história e obras gerais
• História moderna para o século 20: c1700 a c 1900

historical linguistics;scientific terminology;lexical innovation;sociolinguistics;Victorian era science;medical nomenclature;evolution of scientific vocabulary