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This book investigates the role of the Latin language as a vehicle for science and learning from several angles. First, the question what was understood as ‘science’ through time and how it is named in different languages, especially the Classical ones, is approached. Criteria for what did pass as scientific are found that point to ‘science’ as a kind of Greek Denkstil based on pattern-finding and their unbiased checking. In a second part, a brief diachronic panorama introduces schools of thought and authors who wrote in Latin from antiquity to the present. Latin’s heydays in this function are clearly the time between the twelfth and eighteenth centuries. Some niches where it was used longer are examined and reasons sought why Latin finally lost this lead-role. A third part seeks to define the peculiar characteristics of scientific Latin using corpus linguistic approaches. As a result, several types of scientific writing can be identified. The question of how to transfer science from one linguistic medium to another is never far: Latin inherited this role from Greek and is in turn the ancestor of science done in the modern vernaculars. At the end of the study, the importance of Latin science for modern science in English becomes evident.
English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.
A major benefit to learning the Latin language is the improvement of one's vocabulary. Many students could benefit from learning Latin to improve their daily vocabulary, but health science students in particular could benefit from the roots that Latin provides. Many medical terms have these Latin roots, and so a fundamental understanding of Latin should aid in the learning of these terms. I have studied Latin for the entirety of my high school career, and for the last two I have taken up health science classes. By combining these two fields, I hope to educate a student who is interested in both the Health Sciences and the Classics. This book was designed as a high school senior project at Mansfield Frontier High School. During this project students are required to take internship hours and create a product.
A Companion to the Latin Language presents a collection of original essays from international scholars that track the development and use of the Latin language from its origins to its modern day usage. Brings together contributions from internationally renowned classicists, linguists and Latin language specialists Offers, in a single volume, a detailed account of different literary registers of the Latin language Explores the social and political contexts of Latin Includes new accounts of the Latin language in light of modern linguistic theory Supplemented with illustrations covering the development of the Latin alphabet
Seminar paper from the year 2022 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: Bestanden, University of Würzburg (Neuphilologisches Institut), course: Language Contact in the History of English, language: English, abstract: The Latin language gained a prominent position in Europe with the rise of the Roman Empire, of which it was the official language. Even after the fall of Rome, it continued to enjoy great popularity among the more elevated populations of Europe and beyond. Thus, even the educated of the Middle Ages spoke and, more importantly, wrote in Latin, and so it was at the time of the founding of England in 927 and the subsequent rise of the English language. Latin has remained the language of science to this day. Thus, in almost every university field, one finds technical terms that are mostly of Latin or Greek origin or a mixture of both languages. In addition, Latin terms are used as stylistic devices. Accordingly, medicine also has numerous Latin technical words, a significant number of which are likely to have achieved a high degree of recognition due to the highlighted importance of this science. For this reason, it makes sense to examine medical writings more closely for Latin words. A distinction should be made between technical words, for which there is often no equivalent of Germanic origin, and Latin stylistic devices. After collecting these terms and examining them more closely, the aim of this study is to find out whether there has been a decrease in the use of such literary stylistic devices over this 220-year period and whether the number of Latin technical terms has increased or whether no such development can be detected.
For the adapted edition, spelling follows Australian medical terminology conventions and Australian pronunciations are given. The free CD-ROM includes exercise and audio pronunciations, all of which are with an Australian accent.
This book tells the intriguing and often colorful stories of the medical words we use. The origins of clinical and scientific terms can be found in Greek and Latin myths, in places such as jungles of Uganda and the islands of the Aegean Sea, in the names of medicine’s giants such as Hippocrates and Osler, and in some truly unlikely sources. In this book you will learn the answers to questions such as: • What disease was named for an American space flight? • Do you know the echoic word for elephantine rumbling of the bowels? • What drug name was determined by drawing chemists’ notes out of a hat? • What are surfer’s eye, clam digger’s itch, and hide porter’s disease? This book can give you new insights into the terms we use every day in the clinic, hospital, and laboratory. Knowing a word’s history assists in understanding not only what it means, but also some of the connotative subtleties of terms used in diagnosis and treatment. The Amazing Language of Medicine is intended for the enrichment of physicians, other health professionals, students, and anyone involved in clinical care and medical science.
Since the 1980s, bilingualism has become one of the main themes of sociolinguistics - but there are as yet few large-scale treatments of the subject specific to the ancient world. This book is the first work to deal systematically with bilingualism during a period of antiquity (the Roman period, down to about the fourth century AD) in the light of sociolinguistic discussions of bilingual issues. The general theme of the work is the nature of the contact between Latin and numerous other languages spoken in the Roman world. Among the many issues discussed three are prominent: code-switching (the practice of switching between two languages in the course of a single utterance) and its motivation, language contact as a cause of change in one or both of the languages in contact, and the part played by language choice and language switching in the establishment of personal and group identities.