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Language as a Scientific Tool: Shaping Scientific Language Across Time and National Traditions

By Miles MacLeod (Editor), Rocío G. Sumillera (Editor), Jan Surman (Editor), Ekaterina Smirnova (Editor)
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By Miles MacLeod (Editor), Rocío G. Sumillera (Editor), Jan Surman (Editor), Ekaterina Smirnova (Editor)
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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 scienc...

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