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The economics of language / edited by Donald M. Lamberton.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Elgar reference collection | International library of critical writings in economics ; 150.Publisher: Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : E. Elgar Pub., [2002]Copyright date: ©2002Description: xxvi, 330 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1840648023
  • 9781840648027
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.014 21
LOC classification:
  • P120.E27 E36 2002
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction Language: A Social Technology? -- 1. Economics of Language -- 2. The Economics of Language and Language Planning -- 3. The Distribution of Foreign Language Skills as a Game Equilibrium -- 4. Towards a Threshold Theory of Minority Language Survival -- 5. Bilingualism and Network Externalities -- 6. Economic, Statistical, and Linguistic Factors Affecting Success on the Test of English as a Foreign Language -- 7. Culture and Language -- 8. Language as a Limiting Factor for Centralization -- 9. The Foreign Language Needs of U.K.-Based Corporations -- 10. The Foreign Language Needs of U.S.-Based Corporations -- 11. In the Shadow: The Impact of Language on Structure Power and Communication in the Multinational -- 12. The Endogeneity between Language and Earnings: International Analyses -- 13. English and Pluralistic Policies: The Case of Australia -- 14. Socio-economic Aspects of Language Policies: An Australian Perspective -- 15. The World Turned Upside Down: Information Technology and the Linguistic Constraint -- 16. The Market for Telephone Interpreting Services in Australia -- 17. Word Perfected: Can Machines Talk? From Next Month They Will -- 18. Machine Translation: Matching Reality to Expectations -- 19. Will the Internet Always Speak English? -- 20. Exploring the Language and Rhetoric of Economics -- Name Index.
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A collection of articles originally published in various sources, 1965-2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Introduction Language: A Social Technology? -- 1. Economics of Language -- 2. The Economics of Language and Language Planning -- 3. The Distribution of Foreign Language Skills as a Game Equilibrium -- 4. Towards a Threshold Theory of Minority Language Survival -- 5. Bilingualism and Network Externalities -- 6. Economic, Statistical, and Linguistic Factors Affecting Success on the Test of English as a Foreign Language -- 7. Culture and Language -- 8. Language as a Limiting Factor for Centralization -- 9. The Foreign Language Needs of U.K.-Based Corporations -- 10. The Foreign Language Needs of U.S.-Based Corporations -- 11. In the Shadow: The Impact of Language on Structure Power and Communication in the Multinational -- 12. The Endogeneity between Language and Earnings: International Analyses -- 13. English and Pluralistic Policies: The Case of Australia -- 14. Socio-economic Aspects of Language Policies: An Australian Perspective -- 15. The World Turned Upside Down: Information Technology and the Linguistic Constraint -- 16. The Market for Telephone Interpreting Services in Australia -- 17. Word Perfected: Can Machines Talk? From Next Month They Will -- 18. Machine Translation: Matching Reality to Expectations -- 19. Will the Internet Always Speak English? -- 20. Exploring the Language and Rhetoric of Economics -- Name Index.

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