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Language Diversity in Urban Landscapes: An econometric study

Nunes, Paulo A.L.D.; Onofri, Laura; Cenoz, Jasone; … - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

This multidisciplinary study adopts econometric analysis for investigating how different characteristics determine the choice of the language used in the signs of a shopping street. We work with a dataset containing about 200 observations collected in the main shopping streets of the cities of...

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From Statistical to Geolinguistic Data: Mapping and Measuring Linguistic Diversity

Barni, Monica - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2006

maps are created which present the distribution of the immigrant languages through the presence of signs in linguistic …” territory, in which each point surveyed identifies the languages spoken and the various linguistic manifestations. …

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Languages Disenfranchisement in the European Union

Weber, Shlomo; Ginsburgh, Victor - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2004

We introduce the notion of language disenfranchisement which arises if the number of EU working languages is reduced … retention of French and German as working languages in essential to avoid a too large degree of disenfranchisement of citizens …

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Economics of Literary Translation. A Simple Theory and Evidence

Weber, Shlomo; Ginsburgh, Victor; Weyers, Sheila - Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei (FEEM) - 2008

. We show that translations from English are dominated by translations from other languages, including Scandinavian ones …

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