Why do we choose one language over another? Rival views see language frontiers as exogenous, driven by policy, or … endogenous, determined by social, cultural and economic forces. We study language loss in nineteenth-century Ireland's bilingual … education received by a community's elders on subsequent generations' language use. This is consistent with an endogenous demand …

Sometimes, sexist language is blatant and universally shunned. Other times, it is more subtle and even socially …-gendered generics could prompt further changes. The article ends with a useful guide on gender neutral language that can be duplicated …

. Particular attention is given to multilingualism, socio-linguistic approaches to language in the workplace, migration challenges …. Understanding the Dynamics of Language and Multilingualism in Professional Contexts offers new insights into familiar and less …"This book provides readers with the latest research on the dynamics of language and language diversity in professional …

This paper examines whether language classes raises refugees' language proficiency and improves their socio …-economic integration. Our identification strategy leverages the opening, closing, and gradual expansion of local language training centers … in Denmark, as well as the quasi-random assignment of the refugees to locations with varying proximity to a language …

Do languages matter beyond their communicative benefits? We explore the potential role of preferences over the language … Spanish, to isolate linguistic preferences from communicative benefits. Moreover, we exploit the language‐in‐education reform … of 1983 to identify the causal effects of language skills. Results indicate that the policy change has improved the …

The aim of this paper is to research for the role and the operation of Albanian language in Balkans. The Albanian … language is spoken by seven million people in the south-western of Balkans. Albanian is a language of the extensive Indo … document in Albanian language is: Paulus Angelus, 1462 "I baptize thee in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy …

The present study looks at the micro-level language policy and how it is implemented in the state Moscow school with a … the Russian education system. On the one hand, the school has to stick to the official curriculum where the language of … of the Russian language and literature have not had any training on how to teach in culturally and linguistically diverse …