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National unity in cultural diversity: how national and linguistic identities affected Swiss language curricula (1914–1961)

Culture and Education, 2017
By the end of the nineteenth century, the relationship between the state, language and schooling had become extremely close: a state was supposed to be “national”, and a real nation was supposed to be monolingual.
A. Giudici, Sandra Grizelj
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Proposing a linguistic repertoires perspective in multilingual higher education contexts

Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education
Anglophone Higher Education Institutions have embraced cultural diversity but continue to approach linguistic diversity through a deficit perspective, often treating multilingualism as an obstacle rather than a resource (Preece et al., 2018). This paper
Melike Bulut Albaba
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Markets and linguistic diversity [PDF]

The choice of language is a crucial decision for firms competing in cultural goods and media markets with a bilingual or multilingual consumer base. To the extent that multilingual consumers have preferences over the intrinsic characteristics (content ...
Ramon Caminal
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Linguistics Landscape: a Cross Culture Perspective [PDF]

, 2020
This paper was to aim in discussing the linguistic landscape. It was the visibility and salience of languages on public and commercial signs in a given territory or region (Landry and Bourhis 1997).
Duizenberg, M. R. (Max)
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Genetic diversity and the origins of cultural fragmentation [PDF]

, 2013
Despite the importance attributed to the effects of diversity on the stability and prosperity of nations, the origins of the uneven distribution of ethnic and cultural fragmentation across countries have been underexplored.
Galor, Oded, Quamrul , Ashraf
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Geographical and social isolation drive the evolution of Austronesian languages.

PLoS ONE, 2020
The origins of linguistic diversity remain controversial. Studies disagree on whether group features such as population size or social structure accelerate or decelerate linguistic differentiation.
Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias, Erik Gjesfjeld, Lucio Vinicius   +2 more
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LINGUISTIC STRATEGY AND ECONOMIC PROFITABILITY [PDF]

How profitable is to know/speak one international modern language or another can be taken into consideration if we are aware that language skills have market value, implying some additional profit. We have a dimension, a commercial value of language. But
Dorina LUPAN
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Linguistic Structures and Economic Outcomes [PDF]

, 2017
Linguistic structures have recently started to attract attention from economists as determinants of economic phenomena. This paper provides the first comprehensive review of this nascent literature and its achievements so far.
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Markets and linguistic diversity [PDF]

, 2009
The choice of language is a crucial decision for firms competing in cultural goods and media markets with a bilingual or multilingual consumer base. To the extent that multilingual consumers have preferences over the intrinsic characteristics (content ...
Caminal, Ramon, Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica   +2 more
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Anthropological Linguistics (LING21, ANTH020N) Syllabus [PDF]

, 2016
Anthropological Linguistics course description:Communication and culture mutually define one another across communities worldwide. Human linguistic diversity, language contact and language change, and face-to-face communication continue to be key areas ...
Harrison, K. David, Thomas, Jamie A.
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