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Language as a Scientific Tool - Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions (Hardcover)
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Language as a Scientific Tool - Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
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Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many
historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have
investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have
examined those cases where language itself has become an object of
scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to
control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological,
communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to
explore cases in the history of science in which questions or
concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific
discourse. This opens a window into the particular ways in which
scientists have conceived of and construed language as the central
medium of their activity across different cultural contexts and
places, and the clashes and tensions that have manifested their
many attempts to engineer it to both preserve and enrich its
function. The subject of language draws out many topics that have
mostly been neglected in the history of science, such as the
connection between the emergence of national languages and the
development of science within national settings, and allows us to
connect together historical episodes from many understudied
cultural and linguistic venues such as Eastern European and
medieval Hebrew science.
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