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The Swedish Academy of Sciences: Language policy and language practice

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Author

Editor

  • Britt-Louise Gunnarsson

Summary, in English

The Swedish Academy of Sciences was founded in 1739. The article presents and discusses the explicit language policy of the academy and analyzes some aspects of the language and rhetoric of the transactions (in Swedish) of the academy:textual organization, objectivity, rhetorical devices, lexical apparatus, syntactic machinery and techniques of presentation. Special interest is devoted to the transition from Latin to Swedish as the medium of the scientific exposition.

Department/s

Publishing year

2011

Language

English

Pages

63-87

Publication/Series

[Host publication title missing]

Volume

Languages of Science in the Eighteenth Century

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Mouton de Gruyter

Topic

  • Languages and Literature

Keywords

  • text
  • 18th century
  • technical writing
  • syntax
  • standardization
  • Latin
  • Swedish
  • rhetoric

Conference name

Symposium on Languages of Science in the Time of Linnaeus

Conference date

0001-01-02

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-11-025505-8