Overview
- Studies the socio-economic effects of language policies with a special focus on inclusion, participation, and justice
- Offers a truly interdisciplinary perspective on the economic, political, philosophical, and sociolinguistic issues raised by the management of linguistic diversity
- Presents findings that are relevant for decision-making on a national and international level
- First book on linguistic justice from an economic perspective
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Introduction and Overview of Literature
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Political and Philosophical Perspectives on Linguistic Justice
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Economic Approaches to Language Policy and Linguistic Justice
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Sociolinguistic Views and Applications
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Torsten Templin (1986) is a research assistant at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In 2012 he graduated in Mathematics. Since 2014 he is part of the EU financed MIME project (Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe) and works on modeling the dynamics of language use and language policy evaluation. His research interests include language economics, applied mathematics and optimal control theory.
Bengt-Arne Wickström (1948) is guest professor at Andrássy University in Budapest. From 1992 until his retirement in 2013 he held the chair of public economics at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and before that chairs at Johannes-Kepler-Universität in Linz, Austria, and the University of Bergen, Norway. He is an honorary professor at Universidad de La Habana. His research is concentrated on economics and language, and he is currently (2014-2018) coordinating a research group working on the dynamics of language use as part of the EU-financed MIME project (Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe) involving some 20 universities. In addition to language economics, his research interests include welfare economics, public-choice theory, and evolutionary approaches in economics.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Language Policy and Linguistic Justice
Book Subtitle: Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic Approaches
Editors: Michele Gazzola, Torsten Templin, Bengt-Arne Wickström
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75263-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75261-7Published: 14 September 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09184-2Published: 26 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75263-1Published: 03 September 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: V, 535
Number of Illustrations: 18 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour
Topics: Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Language Policy and Planning, Democracy, Sociolinguistics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law