The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
Editor/Author
Ginsburgh, Victor and Weber, Shlomo
Publication Year: 2016
Publisher: Macmillan Publishers Ltd
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ISBN: 978-1-349-67307-0
Category: Business, Finance & Economics - Economics
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Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
In this handbook, Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber bring together methodological, theoretical, and empirical studies in the economics of language in a single framework of linguistic diversity that reflects the history and contemporary study of the topic.
This book is found in the following Credo Collections:
Table of Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction - Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber
- Part I Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement
- 1 Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics - Nigel Fabb
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Abstract linguistic form, and the rules and conditions which govern it
- 1.3 Linguistic diversity: An illustrative comparison between two languages
- 1.4 Theories of linguistic diversity
- 1.5 Whorfian psychology and economics: Causal relations between language and thought
- 1.6 Non-Whorfian proposals that language influences thought
- 1.7 Conclusion
- 2 Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Linguistic Perspective - Andrew D. M. Smith
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Language diversity
- 2.3 Language change
- 2.4 Dynamic models of language
- 2.5 Conclusion
- 3 Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Economic Perspective - Andrew John
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 How economic forces can influence language dynamics
- 3.3 Feedback mechanisms
- 3.4 Economic models of language learning and language use
- 3.5 Dynamic economic models of language use
- 3.6 Conclusion
- 4 What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics? - Mark Leikin
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Terms, definitions and research areas
- 4.3 Brain and language
- 4.4 Evolution of brain and language relationships
- 4.5 Development of brain and language relationships in childhood
- 4.6 The neurolinguistics of bilingualism
- 4.7 Conclusion
- 5 Linguistic Distances and Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Disenfranchisement Indices - Victor Ginsburgh and Shlomo Weber
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Languages, dialects and trade languages
- 5.3 Distances between languages
- 5.4 The effects of linguistic distances on economic outcomes
- 5.5 Linguistic distances between groups
- 5.6 Fractionalization and disenfranchisement indices
- 6 Ancestry, Language and Culture - Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Ancestry
- 6.3 Culture
- 6.4 Ancestry and culture: A simple conceptual framework
- 6.5 Ancestry and culture: Empirical evidence
- 6.6 Conclusion
- 7 Language Learning and Communicative Benefits - Efthymios Athanasiou, Juan D. Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Communicative benefits
- 7.3 Efficiency
- 7.4 Efficient choices of official languages
- 7.5 Conclusion
- 8 Language and Emotion - Niall Bond and Victor Ginsburgh
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Emotions and the polyglot
- 8.3 Choosing languages within language communities
- 8.4 ‘Colonized’ writers
- 8.5 Migrating writers
- 8.6 Between languages: Nabokov, Green and Tabucchi
- 8.7 ‘Denying’ the language in which they wrote: Kafka and Derrida
- 8.8 Conclusion
- Part II Languages and Markets
- 9 Common Spoken Languages and International Trade - Peter H. Egger and Farid Toubal
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Common native and spoken languages around the globe and their measures
- 9.3 A trade economist's stylized view on languages
- 9.4 Empirical results
- 9.5 Conclusion
- 10 Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World: An Exploratory Review - Nigel Holden
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Language considerations
- 10.3 Context of trade and antiquity
- 10.4 The written word
- 10.5 The spoken language of business in the Ancient World
- 10.6 Commercial terms in various languages of the Ancient World
- 10.7 The businessman as unsavoury personage in Greek and Latin literature
- 10.8 Latin: Not just a lingua franca
- 10.9 Conclusion
- 11 Language Use in Multinational Corporations: The Role of Special Languages and Corporate Idiolects - Susanne Tietze, Nigel Holden and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Cities and the MNC
- 11.3 Research on language aspects of the MNC: A pragmatic perspective
- 11.4 Special languages
- 11.5 Discussion
- 11.6 Conclusion
- 12 Language and Migration - Alícia Adserà and Mariola Pytliková
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 The role of language in migration decisions
- 12.3 Language proficiency among migrants
- 12.4 Language and the returns to human capital
- 12.5 Language and migrants’ socio-economic assimilation
- 12.6 Conclusion
- 13 Translation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives - Johan Heilbron and Gisèle Sapiro
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 International translation flows and the global market of translations
- 13.3 Political, economic and cultural factors
- 13.4 Selection, import and reception patterns
- 13.5 Conclusion
- 14 Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting - Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Charlotte Vandeput
- 14.1 Introduction
- 14.2 Institutional background and hypotheses
- 14.3 Data and econometric modelling
- 14.4 Empirical implementation and results
- 14.5 Conclusion
- Part III Linguistic Policies and Economic Development
- 15 Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development - Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortuño-Ortín and Romain Wacziarg
- 15.1 Introduction
- 15.2 A phylogenetic approach to linguistic diversity
- 15.3 Linguistic diversity, redistribution and economic growth
- 15.4 Linguistic diversity and economic development
- 15.5 Conclusion
- 16 Language Choices: Political and Economic Factors in Three European States - Sue Wright
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Nation building
- 16.3 Language, advantage and group membership
- 16.4 Conclusion: The role of elites
- 17 Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development in South Asia - Selma K. Sonntag
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 India
- 17.3 Sri Lanka
- 17.4 Nepal
- 17.5 Pakistan
- 17.6 Conclusion
- 18 Is Language Destiny? The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa - Brandon de la Cuesta and Leonard Wantchekon
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Why does Africa have such high levels of linguistic diversity?
- 18.3 The economic and political effects of linguistic diversity
- 18.4 Conclusion
- 19 Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development: Russia - Denis V. Kadochnikov
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 The standardization of the Russian language in late medieval Russia (16-17th centuries)
- 19.3 Language policy in the context of the reforms of Peter the Great and his successors (18th century)
- 19.4 The role of foreign languages in Russia of the late 18th and early 19th centuries
- 19.5 Language policy in the context of the territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (17-19th centuries)
- 19.6 Language and politics in late imperial Russia
- 19.7 The socialist revolution of 1917 and early Soviet language policy (1920-1930)
- 19.8 Late Soviet language policy (1930-1980)
- 19.9 Russian and other languages of the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period
- 19.10 Summary: Socio-economic and political factors and implications of language policy in Russia in historical perspective
- Part IV Globalization and Minority Languages
- 20 English as a Global Language - Jacques Melitz
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 The status of English as a global language
- 20.3 Areas where English faces sharp limits
- 20.4 Language learning
- 20.5 Welfare implications
- 21 Challenges of Minority Languages - François Grin
- 21.1 Introduction
- 21.2 What is a minority language?
- 21.3 The economics of minority language protection and promotion
- 21.4 Capacity, opportunity and desire: An overview of the basic model
- 21.5 Conditions for effective policies
- 21.6 Guidelines for language policy
- 21.7 The costs and net value of minority language policies
- 21.8 About contingent and absolute multilingualism
- 21.9 Conclusion
- 22 Language Rights: A Welfare-Economics Approach - Bengt-Arne Wickström
- 22.1 Introduction
- 22.2 Basic model
- 22.3 Modifications due to endogenous preferences
- 22.4 Modifications due to redistribution
- 22.5 Conclusion
- 23 A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies - José-Ramón Uriarte
- 23.1 Introduction
- 23.2 Multilingual societies
- 23.3 The reference point: Linguistic rights, linguistic politeness and expectations
- 23.4 The maximin language choice
- 23.5 Information in modern multilingual societies
- 23.6 The ultimatum language game
- 23.7 The bilinguals as a player population: The building of linguistic conventions
- 23.8 Linguistic politeness equilibrium
- 23.9 Policy suggestions
- 23.10 Conclusion
- Name Index
- Subject Index