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 …

for their language use. Specifically, it investigates how the students negotiated legitimacy for using their target … language German in their classroom. Based on the premise that linguistic legitimacy is crucial for the maintenance and … participant observations. Findings revealed that, while English dominated the lessons as the default legitimate language among the …

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 …

Immigrants in economies with a dominant native language exhibit substantial heterogeneities in language acquisition of … the majority language. We model partial equilibrium language acquisition as an equilibrium phenomenon. We consider an … environment where heterogeneous agents from various minority groups choose whether to acquire a majority language fully, partially …

In this paper, a description of sentential negation makers in Russian Sign Language (RSL) is provided. Two types of …

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 …