ISBN:
9781137325044
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (766 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Ginsburgh, V The Palgrave Handbook of Economics and Language
DDC:
306.449
Keywords:
Electronic books
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Globalisierung
;
Linguistik
;
Sprache
;
Wirtschaft
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Linguistic Diversity: Origins and Measurement -- 1 Linguistic Theory, Linguistic Diversity and Whorfian Economics -- 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
Abstract:
1.6 Non-Whorfian proposals that language influences thought -- 1.7 Conclusion -- 2 Dynamic Models of Language Evolution: The Linguistic Perspective -- 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 -- 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
Abstract:
4 What Do We Learn from Neurolinguistics? -- 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 -- 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
Abstract:
5.5 Linguistic distances between groups -- 5.6 Fractionalization and disenfranchisement indices -- 6 Ancestry, Language and Culture -- 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 -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Communicative benefits -- 7.3 Efficiency -- 7.4 Efficient choices of official languages -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8 Language and Emotion -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Emotions and the polyglot
Abstract:
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 -- 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
Abstract:
10 Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World: An Exploratory Review
Note:
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