The Approach of Academic to Spoken, Style in German: A Study in Popular Scientific Prose, From Scientific Prose, From 1850 to 1914 (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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This study Sprang from a suggestion of Dr. Learned that a certain recent scientific work was cumbered with obscure style, although its appeal was a popular one. German is much praised in America as pre eminently the language of science; clearness would seem to be the most desirable quality for scientific purposes.

Many of these have been written upon literary German. From the American point of view it seemed worth while to consider German as a scientific medium and to determine as. Far as may be whether it be a clear one.

A necessary preface to such a study was the analytical statement of some elements of clearness in Chapter I. Then a corpus Of representa tive popular scientific prose was needed, the task of covering the ground exhaustively being an impossible one. Seventy - one works were studied. Two passages of fifty sentences being selected from each. The aim was to cover the period from 1870 and as many branches of science as pos sible, but to select popular resumes rather than original investigations.

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