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Markets and linguistic diversity [PDF]
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 2010 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) as well as over the language of the product, we can examine the efficiency of market outcomes ...
Ramon Caminal
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Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019 Abstract We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and thereby reduce productivity.
Harald Dale-Olsen, Henning Finseraas
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Protecting Linguistic and Religious Minorities: Looking for Synergies among Legal Instruments
Religions, 2021 Language and religion are two main cultural markers of collective identities and articulating factors at play in the majority-minority game. However, from a legal and political point of view, language and religion work very differently as factors for ...
Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez
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Understanding Linguistic Prejudice: Critical Approaches to Language Diversity in Brazil
, 2023 This book discusses linguistic diversity, linguistic prejudice, and language variation and change from a Global South perspective by analyzing Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and indigenous languages spoken in Brazil.
Andrade Berlinck, Rosane [UNESP] +2 more
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About the blessing of linguistic diversity in the field of education (and beyond)
SCENARIO: Journal for Performative Teaching, Learning, Research, 2023 In this article performative teaching practice becomes a departure point for reflections on linguistic diversity in the field of education. Reference is made to personal experiences with linguistic (in)sensitivity in intercultural encounters, and ...
Manfred Schewe
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Typical and atypical language development in cultural and linguistic diversity
, 2023 Typical and Atypical Language Development in Cultural and Linguistic Diversity brings together state-of-the-art studies in both typical and atypical language development.
Brebner, Chris, Han, Weifeng
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Complementary and conflicting discourses of linguistic diversity: implications for language planning
Per Linguam : A Journal of Language Learning, 2011 Although the promotion of linguistic diversity is one of the main goals of language policy and planning in Africa, few attempts have been made to analyse how linguistic diversity has been construed in Africa within the different types of language ...
Barbara Trudell, Sinfree Makoni
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Flowing Time: Emergentism and Linguistic Diversity
Philosophies, 2023 Humans are complex systems, ‘macro-entities’, whose existence, behaviour and consciousness stem out of the configurations of physical entities on the micro-level of the physical world.
Kasia M. Jaszczolt
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PLoS ONE, 2020 Environmental parameters constrain the distributions of plant and animal species. A key question is to what extent does environment influence human behavior.
Nicolas Antunes +4 more
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Supporting migrant inclusion: the role of linguistic diversity in community-led organisations
, 2023 This empirical study explores migrant inclusion in the linguistically diverse city of Glasgow. The particular focus is on the minoritisation of emergent speakers of English, who can find it especially difficult to access support. The research involved in-
Calvert, Daniel
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