Latin as the Language of Science and Learning / / Philipp Roelli.
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...
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Roelli, Philipp, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Latin as the Language of Science and Learning / Philipp Roelli. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (XIII, 646 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Lingua Academica : Beiträge zur Erforschung historischer Gelehrten- und Wissenschaftssprachen , 2569-9903 ; 7 Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021) funded by Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://www.degruyter.com/dg/page/open-access-policy 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. Habil Universität Zürich 2021. In English. Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements and practicalities -- Introduction -- Part 1 Semantics of the term 'science' -- 1 Modern languages: Wissenschaft, science, наука, επιστήμη -- 2 Terms for 'science' in Greek and Latin -- 3 The wider semantic field of 'science' in the classical languages -- 4 What is science and how does it relate to Denkstil? -- 5 The demarcation problem -- Part 2 Diachronic panorama of Latin science and learning -- 6 Introductory remarks on Denkstile, epochs, and genres -- 7 Greek science and its language in Antiquity -- 8 Foundations of Roman science in Latin -- 9 The age of the artes liberales -- 10 The adoption of the Greek Denkstil -- 11 University science: An Aristotelian Revolution -- 12 New approaches in the Renaissance -- 13 New science in the old tongue -- 14 The demise of Latin as language of science -- 15 Niches where Latin survived longer -- 16 From Latin to vernacular science -- Part 3 Changes in the language of science -- 17 Introduction to the linguistics of scientific language -- 18 Linguistic development studied in a general scientific corpus -- 19 Conclusions on the Latin used in scientific texts -- 20 Specific corpora: Arithmetic, historiography, scientific poetry -- 21 How are new scientific concepts expressed? -- 22 How was Greek science imported into other languages? -- 23 The reuse of Latin in the modern languages of science -- 24 On the relation between science, culture, and language -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliographies -- General Index Description based upon print version of record. LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General. bisacsh Latin science. corpus-linguistics. languages of science. semantics of science. 3-11-074575-5 Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF) funder. fnd http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fnd Lingua Academica Ser. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements and practicalities -- Introduction -- Part 1 Semantics of the term 'science' -- 1 Modern languages: Wissenschaft, science, наука, επιστήμη -- 2 Terms for 'science' in Greek and Latin -- 3 The wider semantic field of 'science' in the classical languages -- 4 What is science and how does it relate to Denkstil? -- 5 The demarcation problem -- Part 2 Diachronic panorama of Latin science and learning -- 6 Introductory remarks on Denkstile, epochs, and genres -- 7 Greek science and its language in Antiquity -- 8 Foundations of Roman science in Latin -- 9 The age of the artes liberales -- 10 The adoption of the Greek Denkstil -- 11 University science: An Aristotelian Revolution -- 12 New approaches in the Renaissance -- 13 New science in the old tongue -- 14 The demise of Latin as language of science -- 15 Niches where Latin survived longer -- 16 From Latin to vernacular science -- Part 3 Changes in the language of science -- 17 Introduction to the linguistics of scientific language -- 18 Linguistic development studied in a general scientific corpus -- 19 Conclusions on the Latin used in scientific texts -- 20 Specific corpora: Arithmetic, historiography, scientific poetry -- 21 How are new scientific concepts expressed? -- 22 How was Greek science imported into other languages? -- 23 The reuse of Latin in the modern languages of science -- 24 On the relation between science, culture, and language -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliographies -- General Index |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements and practicalities -- Introduction -- Part 1 Semantics of the term 'science' -- 1 Modern languages: Wissenschaft, science, наука, επιστήμη -- 2 Terms for 'science' in Greek and Latin -- 3 The wider semantic field of 'science' in the classical languages -- 4 What is science and how does it relate to Denkstil? -- 5 The demarcation problem -- Part 2 Diachronic panorama of Latin science and learning -- 6 Introductory remarks on Denkstile, epochs, and genres -- 7 Greek science and its language in Antiquity -- 8 Foundations of Roman science in Latin -- 9 The age of the artes liberales -- 10 The adoption of the Greek Denkstil -- 11 University science: An Aristotelian Revolution -- 12 New approaches in the Renaissance -- 13 New science in the old tongue -- 14 The demise of Latin as language of science -- 15 Niches where Latin survived longer -- 16 From Latin to vernacular science -- Part 3 Changes in the language of science -- 17 Introduction to the linguistics of scientific language -- 18 Linguistic development studied in a general scientific corpus -- 19 Conclusions on the Latin used in scientific texts -- 20 Specific corpora: Arithmetic, historiography, scientific poetry -- 21 How are new scientific concepts expressed? -- 22 How was Greek science imported into other languages? -- 23 The reuse of Latin in the modern languages of science -- 24 On the relation between science, culture, and language -- Summary and concluding remarks -- Appendix 1 -- Appendix 2 -- Bibliographies -- General Index |
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