Distributions of language rights in multilingual settings are analyzed from a normative viewpoint in this chapter. If …-benefit calculation has to be augmented in various ways if rights influence the status of a language, which in turn influences the … preferences for language rights. Also the inter-generational transfer of language repertoires to the next generation leads to an …

The essay gives an overview of how language planning and language policy can be motivated and analyzed by economic … methods. It is discussed what type of value language-related goods possess and what type of goods they are. Properties like … degrees of rivalry, exclusion, and shielding and how they can justify language planning are treated. A cost-benefit approach …

We model political contestation over school language policy, within linguistic communities where weak property rights … property rights protection might exacerbate such language conflicts, even as they reduce the chances of persisting with …

to several categories of literature in language economics. It consolidates the respective literature lists used by the …

When learning two languages of the same language family, one will realize quickly that there are similarities. But how … deep are language and culture related? For long time the hypothesis that languages are responsible for cultural development … intercultural communication can be drawn, giving another view on the relation between languages and cultures -- Culture ; Language …

benefits and burdens in a society. The Basic Social Justice Orientations (BSJO) scale is an eight-item scale that measures … agreement with the equality, equity, need, and entitlement principle. In contrast to comparable other scales that have been used … in justice research in the past, the BSJO scale is consistent with the current state of empirical justice research …

language in Zambia. We develop a theoretical framework, which is tested using data on elicited beliefs about the effects of … changes in Zambia's language policy on schooling outcomes, income, and social cohesion. In general, support for the use of … language compared to English, and economic expectations in terms of effects on income are important determinants of the …

This paper investigates the economic returns to language skills and bilingualism. The analysis is staged in Kazakhstan …, a multi-ethnic country with complex ethnic settlement patterns that has switched its official state language from … bilingualism on earnings while Russian was the official state language in the 1990s. Surprisingly, the Kazakh language continues to …