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Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic Approaches

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Editors:
  1. Michele Gazzola

    1. Forschungsgruppe “Ökonomie und Sprache”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  2. Torsten Templin

    1. Forschungsgruppe “Ökonomie und Sprache”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

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  3. Bengt-Arne Wickström

    1. Andrássy University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction and Overview of Literature

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Economics Approach to Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

      • Bengt-Arne Wickström, Torsten Templin, Michele Gazzola
      Pages 3-64

    3. Linguistic Justice: An Interdisciplinary Overview of the Literature

      • Javier Alcalde
      Pages 65-149

  3. Political and Philosophical Perspectives on Linguistic Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151
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    2. Justice in the Linguistic Environment: Narrow or Wide?

      • Andrew Shorten
      Pages 153-172

    3. Toward an Adaptive Approach to Linguistic Justice: Three Paradoxes

      • Yael Peled
      Pages 173-188

    4. Language Proficiency and Migration: An Argument Against Testing

      • Astrid von Busekist, Benjamin Boudou
      Pages 189-208

    5. The Myth of English as a Common Language in the European Union (EU) and Some of Its Political Consequences

      • Jean-Claude Barbier
      Pages 209-229

  4. Economic Approaches to Language Policy and Linguistic Justice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 231-231
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    2. Linguistic Justice in a Federal Setting: The Case of Canadian Provinces

      • François Vaillancourt
      Pages 233-258

    3. Language Policy and Social Segmentation: Evidence from Catalonia

      • Ramon Caminal, Antonio Di Paolo
      Pages 259-285

    4. Languages, Human Capital, and Well-Being in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Katalin Buzási, Péter Földvári
      Pages 287-312

    5. Linguistic Disenfranchisement and Labour Mobility in Europe

      • Till Burckhardt
      Pages 313-335

    6. Choosing Working Languages in a Multilingual Organization: A Statistical Analysis with a Particular View on the European Union

      • Dietrich Voslamber
      Pages 337-360

  5. Sociolinguistic Views and Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 361-361
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    2. The Assessment of Sociolinguistic Justice: Parameters and Models of Analysis

      • Gabriele Iannàccaro, Federico Gobbo, Vittorio Dell’Aquila
      Pages 363-391

    3. Regulatory Environment, Linguistic Inequalities, and New Opportunities for Hungarian Minority Interest Representation in Romania

      • Zsombor Csata, László Marácz
      Pages 393-430

    4. The Economic Value of Mastering Languages: The Case of Ethnically Mixed Areas in Slovenia

      • David Limon, Mojca Medvešek, Sonja Novak Lukanovič
      Pages 431-453

    5. Language and Translation Policies in Context of Urban Super-Diversity

      • Reine Meylaerts
      Pages 455-475
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About this book

Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants. They can affect the democratic control of political organizations, and they can either entrench or reduce inequalities. These are the central topics of this book. Economists, philosophers, political scientists, and sociolinguists discuss – from an interdisciplinary perspective – the distributive socio-economic effects of language policies, their impact on justice and inequality at the national or international level, as well as the connection between language choices and an inclusive access to public services. The range of social and economic issues raised by linguistic diversity in contemporary societies is large, and this requires new approaches to tackle them. This book provides new input to design better, more efficient, and fair language policies in order to manage linguistic diversity in different areas. Topics covered include: theoretical models of linguistic justice and linguistic disadvantage; the assessment of the socio-economic consequences of language policies; the evaluation of the costs, benefits, and degree of inclusion of language planning measures; the politics of migrants’ linguistic integration; as well as multilingualism and economic activities. These topics are discussed in different contexts, including the areas inhabited by linguistic minorities, cities receiving migrants, and supranational organizations.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Forschungsgruppe “Ökonomie und Sprache”, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Michele Gazzola, Torsten Templin

  • Andrássy University Budapest, Budapest, Hungary

    Bengt-Arne Wickström

About the editors

​Michele Gazzola (1978) is a research fellow at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in the Research Group "Economics and Language", as well as a research fellow at the Institute for ethnic studies (Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja) in Ljubljana, and a teaching fellow at the Università della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. He is currently working on the research project Mobility and Inclusion in a Multilingual Europe (project MIME). His research areas include language policy and planning, the economics of languages, policy analysis, and multilingualism as a social phenomenon.


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.   



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