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How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity

Ginsburgh, V., & Weber, S. (2011). How Many Languages Do We Need? The Economics of Linguistic Diversity. Princeton University Press.

Type
Book
Intellectual base
Review or monograph
Year
2011
DOI
10.23943/princeton/9780691136899.001.0001
ISBN
9780691136899
DOI registrant
Princeton University Press
Link
https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691136899.001.0001
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  • Common-Medium Intermediation
    • In language it is a lingua franca, letting speakers of N languages intercommunicate by each learning one second language rather than N-minus-one.

      This sourceTreats a lingua franca as a shared communication medium and analyzes the economics of language coordination — speakers of many languages intercommunicating by adopting a common second language rather than maintaining pairwise translation.

      Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

      The book's abstract frames linguistic diversity as a cost and discusses choosing 'core languages' in a multilingual community, but it states neither the N-by-N barter-to-money analogy nor the one-second-language arithmetic.

      “The book addresses the choosing of core languages in a multilingual community, such as the European Union, and argues that although too many official languages might harm cohesiveness, efficiency, and communication, reducing their number brings about alienation and disenfranchisement of groups.”

      From the publisher's abstract.

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