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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Gordin, Michael D. (1974-....)
Titre(s) : Scientific Babel [Texte imprimé] : how science was done before and after global English / Michael D. Gordin
Publication : Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (415 p.) ; 24 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"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"--The publisher
Sujet(s) : Information scientifique
Anglais scientifique et technique
Indice(s) Dewey :
501.4 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - Communication
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226000299. - ISBN 022600029X. - ISBN 9780226000329. - ISBN 022600032X
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47449868z
Notice n° :
FRBNF47449868
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Table des matières : Introduction: Talking science ; The perfect past that almost was ; The table and
the word ; Hydrogen oxygenovich ; Speaking Utopian ; The wizards of Ido ; The
linguistic shadow of the Great War ; Unspeakable ; The Dostoevsky machine ; All
the Russian that's fit to print ; The Fe curtain ; Anglophonia ; Babel beyond.
