The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language [electronic resource] /
Ginsburgh, V.editor.
Weber, S.editor.
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. The impact of linguistic diversity on economic outcomes and public policies has been studied not only by economists and other social scientists in the contemporary era, but all the way back to the 19th century by geographer and naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt, who emphasized the importance of language in the framework of cultural experience. This interdependence of language and culture is reflected through the chapters in this handbook which have been written by leading economists, linguists and political scientists from universities in the United States, Australia, Russia, Israel, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The contributions are divided into four parts. Part I examines linguistic concepts that forge common ground between economists, political scientists, sociologists and linguists, and introduces the notion of linguistic proximity extensively utilized in various chapters of the volume. Part II assesses the impact of languages on market interactions, including international trade, patent protection, migration, and use of languages in ancient and modern business environments. Part III focuses on the link between linguistic policies and economic development, including the analysis of regional development in Asia, Africa, Europe and Russia. Part IV addresses issues of globalization, minority languages and the protection of linguistic rights in multilingual societies.
Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
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. The impact of linguistic diversity on economic outcomes and public policies has been studied not only by economists and other social scientists in the contemporary era, but all the way back to the 19th century by geographer and naturalist, Alexander von Humboldt, who emphasized the importance of language in the framework of cultural experience. This interdependence of language and culture is reflected through the chapters in this handbook which have been written by leading economists, linguists and political scientists from universities in the United States, Australia, Russia, Israel, the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The contributions are divided into four parts. Part I examines linguistic concepts that forge common ground between economists, political scientists, sociologists and linguists, and introduces the notion of linguistic proximity extensively utilized in various chapters of the volume. Part II assesses the impact of languages on market interactions, including international trade, patent protection, migration, and use of languages in ancient and modern business environments. Part III focuses on the link between linguistic policies and economic development, including the analysis of regional development in Asia, Africa, Europe and Russia. Part IV addresses issues of globalization, minority languages and the protection of linguistic rights in multilingual societies.
Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics / Nigel Fabb -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Linguistic Perspective / Andrew D.M. Smith -- Dynamic Models of Language Evolution : The Economic Perspective / Andrew John -- What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics? / Mark Leikin -- Linguistic Distances and Ethnolinguistic Fractionalization and Disenfranchisement Indices / Victor Ginsburgh and Schlomo Weber -- Ancestry, Language and Culture / Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg -- Language Learning and Communicative Benefits / Efthymios Athanasiou [and others] -- Language and Emotion / Niall Bond and Victor Ginsburgh -- Common Spoken Languages and International Trade / Peter H. Egger and Farid Toubal -- Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World : An Exploratory Review / Nigel Holden -- Language Use in Multinational Corporations : The Role of Special Languages and Corporate Idiolects / Susanne Tietze [and others] -- Language and Migration / Alícia Adserà and Mariola Pytliková -- Translation : Economic and Sociological Perspectives / Johan Heilbron and Gisèle Sapiro -- Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting / Dietmar Harhoff [and others] -- Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development / Klaus Desmet [and others] -- Language Choices : Political and Economic Factors in Three European States / Sue Wright -- Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development in South Asia / Selma K. Sonntag -- Is Language Destiny? : The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in Sub-Saharan Africa / Brandon de la Cuesta and Leonard Wantchekon -- Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development : Russia / Denis V. Kadochnikov -- English as a Global Language / Jacques Melitz -- Challenges of Minority Languages / François Grin -- Language Rights A Welfare-Economics Approach / Bengt-Arne Wickström -- A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies / José Ramón Uriarte.
Historical linguistics.
Schools of economics.
Sociolinguistics.
Economic theory.
Historical Linguistics.
Heterodox Economics.
Sociolinguistics.
Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.