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language use and linguistic rights of ethnic communities in North Macedonia. At first the paper gives a historical overview of … the modalities of language rights protection in the country before and after its independence in 1991. The paper focuses …
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Combining different new approaches to human behavior in neuroeconomics, the cognitive sciences and institutional economics, this paper sketches the fundamentals of a naturalistic theory of economic order. In this endeavour, the argument follows the track laid down by Hayek's comprehensive...
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This paper develops a semiotic-inferential model of verbal communication for incomplete information games: a language … common language is used, and an inferential step where the receiver may either trust the message's literal meaning or … equilibria where language is not used in its ordinary sense. The paper also proposes a refinement by which the sender selects …
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This paper tests for one mechanism that can explain the existence of a language barrier to trade. Specifically, I ask … Canadian provinces that know the other's language(s). I find that trade in industries with a need to communicate directly … (orally) with importers increases with the probability that people in another province speak the same language. This finding …
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communicate. We consider two variants, modelling talk about future plans and talk about past actions. The language from which …
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We present experimental evidence from a bilingual city in Northern Italy on whether the language spoken by a partner in …, but that the gap between cooperation among in-group members and cooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasing with age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
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that the gap between cooperation among in-group members andcooperation towards children speaking another language is … considerable and increasingwith age. This gap is due to both, in-group favoritism and language group discrimination. …
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According to Chen’s (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We...
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influence of reading performance on math performance, highlighting the importance of early language support for immigrants for …
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According to Chen's (2013) linguistic-savings hypothesis, languages which grammatically separate the future and the present (like English or Italian) induce less future-oriented behavior than languages in which speakers can refer to the future by using present tense (like German). We complement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401662