Introduction: The languages of scientists

Autor: Michael D. Gordin, Kostas Tampakis
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: History of Science. 53:365-377
ISSN: 1753-8564
0073-2753
Popis: Much of the scholarship in the history of science has undervalued the significance of the debates around language choice and language use. After surveying various historiographical trends characterizing the relationship of science to language, this introduction explores the role of language-choice in nation-building, education, publication and transnational exchanges. It concludes with a brief summary of the four case studies in this special issue, which explore the German, Greek, English and Russian languages in the context of the sciences in nineteenth-century Europe.
Databáze: OpenAIRE