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Peer reviewedGrin, Francois – Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 1990
A brief survey of existing contributions about language by economists is presented. An explanation is given of the fundamental economic reasoning on which minority language use can be modeled, and the presentation of a model of minority language use incorporating such aspects as goods, wage rates, prices, and the labor market is described.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Economic Research, Language Research, Language Usage
