TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lamberton,D.M.
TI  - The economics of language
T2  - An Elgar reference collection
SN  - 1840648023
AV  - P120.E27 E36 2002
U1  - 330.014 21
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, MA, USA
PB  - E. Elgar Pub.
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Economic aspects
N1  - 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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