「英語」における語彙教育と科学 - 二つの文化を超えて

Abstract

Many words now generally viewed as indispensable academic terms for university science majors are also favorites among the most canonical English authors, notably William Shakespeare and John Milton. This paper not only gives some background of that astonishing coincidence, which is never without good reason, but also accounts for the intriguing relationships of the origin and use of vocabulary used by science majors with those used by their literary counterparts. These relationships are illustrated by referring to the epoch-making publication of The Kyoto University Data-based List of 1, 110 Essential Academic Words (Kenkyusha, 2009) 『( 京大学術語彙データベース 基本英単語1110』研究社), featuring, among others, "moiety, " "combustion, " "follicle, " "blot, " and "dissect."