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Record Nr.

UNINA9910458448403321

Autore

Grin Francois.

Titolo

The economics of the multilingual workplace / / Francois Grin, Claudio Sfreddo and Francois Vaillancourt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2010

ISBN

1-136-97829-1

1-282-62970-0

9786612629709

0-203-85267-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in sociolinguistics ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

SfreddoClaudio

VaillancourtFrancois

Disciplina

306.44/6

Soggetti

Multilingualism - Economic aspects

Diversity in the workplace

Sociolinguistics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: The Economic Perspective on Multilingualism; 1 Language at Work: Identifying the Issue; 2 On the Linguistics of the Economy v. the Economics of Language; 3 A Gallery of Empirical Findings; 4 Foreign Language Skills and Earnings; Part II: Foreign Language Skills, Foreign Language Use, and Production; 5 Language Use and the Production Process; 6 From Theory to Measurement; 7 The Contribution of Multilingualism to Value Creation; 8 Foreign Language Skills and Hiring Strategies

Part III: Policy Implications and Future Prospects9 Policy Implications; 10 Multilingualism at Work: A Prospective Glance; Appendix I: Language-Augmented Production Model; Appendix II: Estimation Procedure and Results; Appendix III: A Simple Recruitment Model; Notes; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the



identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related.Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also explicitly relating the analysis to the approaches to multilingualism at work developed in the language sciences, this interdisciplinary book proposes a systematic, step-by-step exploration of the issue. Starting from a general identification of the linkages between multilingualism and processe