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How can language be linked to economics?: A survey of two strands of research
Language Problems and Language Planning, 2013
As the use of languages is playing a more and more important role in economic activities with the globalization of the world economy, there is growing interest in the relationship between language and economic theory. The rapidly expanding literature in this field, however, is highly fragmented. It is difficult to tell what this field of study focuses on, what has actually been investigated, and what remains to be studied. The authors attempt to review, assess and categorize the major orientations of the research on the economics of language. Those include a traditional strand of research that has focused on language and economic status, the dynamic development of languages, and language policy and planning, as well as a new strand based on game theory and pragmatics. The authors propose the use of the term "Language and economics" to define this area of research.
A Concise Bibliography of Language Economics
The MIT Press
This chapter may be seen as a companion to chapter one, which proposes an overview of language economics in the form of a “mental map”. It is devoted to a bibliography which provides an extensive set of references to all the categories of literature in language economics featured in the mental map. This bibliography list consolidates the respective literature lists used by the authors of this chapter in their research and teaching.
Journal of Economic Literature, 2020
The paper brings together methodological, theoretical, and empirical analysis into the single framework of linguistic diversity. It reflects both historical and contemporary research by economists and other social scientists on the impact of language on economic outcomes and public policies. We examine whether and how language influences human thinking (including emotions) and behavior, analyze the effects of linguistic distances on trade, migrations, financial markets, language learning and its returns. The quantitative foundations of linguistic diversity, which rely on group identification, linguistic distances as well as fractionalization, polarization and disenfranchisement indices are discussed in terms of their empirical challenges and uses. We conclude with an analysis of linguistic policies and shifts of languages and examine their welfare effects and the trade-offs between the development of labor markets and the social costs that they generate in various countries.
Economics and Language, Cambridge University Press, 2000
Arising out of the author's lifetime fascination with the links between the formal language of mathematical models and natural language, this short book comprises five essays investigating both the economics of language and the language of economics. Ariel Rubinstein touches on the structure imposed on binary relations in daily language, the evolutionary development of the meaning of words, game-theoretical considerations of pragmatics, the language of economic agents, and the rhetoric of game theory. These short essays are full of challenging ideas for social scientists that should help to encourage a fundamental rethinking of many of the underlying assumptions in economic theory and game theory. A postscript contains comments by a logician, Johan van Benthem
Economics and English: Language Growth in Economic Perspective
Southern Economic Journal, 2004
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The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview
SSRN Electronic Journal
The Economics of Language: An Introduction and Overview¹ This paper provides an introduction and overview of my research on the Economics of Language. The approach is that language skills among immigrants and native-born linguistic minorities are a form of human capital. There are costs and benefits associated with this characteristic embodied in the person. The analysis focuses on the economic and demographic determinants of destination language proficiency among immigrants. This is based on Exposure, Efficiency and Economic Incentives (the three E's) for proficiency. It also focuses on the labor market consequences (earnings) of proficiency for immigrants and native-born bilinguals. The empirical testing for the US, Canada, Australia, Israel and Bolivia is supportive of the theoretical models.
Political Economy of Language: Linguistic Perspectives on Economic Policy
International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Research and Studies, 2023
In this review, we explored the intricate interplay between language and economic policy, shedding light on the often overlooked yet profound ways in which linguistic factors shape and are shaped by the economic landscape. This review delves into the nexus of political economy and language, examining how language serves as a tool of power, negotiation, and persuasion in the formulation and execution of economic policies. Drawing from linguistic perspectives, we dissect the role of discourse in shaping public perception of economic policies. We investigate the linguistic strategies employed by policymakers to communicate complex economic concepts, exploring how language can be a mechanism of inclusion or exclusion within economic decision-making processes. Additionally,