Language Change and Nineteenth-Century Science: New Words, New Worlds

Aimed at postgraduate students of the English language and all those interested in the history of the English language, this work explores new worlds and offers an original and fascinating etymological journey through nineteenth-century science in its broadest sense.

Catherine Watts has worked in Higher Education for over forty years and is a Senior Fellow/International Teaching Fellow (Higher Education Academy, UK), affiliated to the universities of Heidelberg (Germany), Alcalá de Henares (Spain) and Shanghai (China). Since 2013 she has written eight textbooks for language teaching/learning (all published by Routledge) which reflect Catherine’s research interests.