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results in Section 6.4Chapter 7. Efthymios Athanasiou, Juan Moreno-Ternero and Shlomo Weber, Language Learning and Communicative Benefits7.1 Introduction7.2 Communicative benefits7.3 Efficiency7.4 Efficient choices of official languages7.5 Conclusion7.6 ReferencesChapter 8. Niall Bond and Victor Ginsburgh, Language and Emotion8.1 Introduction8.2 Emotions and the polyglot8.3 Choosing languages within language communities8.4 'Colonized' writers8.5 Migrating writers8.6 Between languages: Nabokov, Green and Tabucchi8.7 'Denying' the language in which they wrote: Kafka and Derrida8.8 Concluding remarksPart II. Languages and MarketsChapter 9. Peter Egger, and Farid Toubal, Common Spoken Languages and International Trade9.1 Introduction9.2 Common native and spoken languages on the globe and their measures9.3 A trade economists stylized view on languages9.4 Empirical results9.5 Conclusions9.6 ReferencesChapter 10. Nigel Holden, Economic Exchange and Business Language in the Ancient World. An Exploratory Review10.1 Introduction10.2 Language considerations10.3 Context of trade and antiquity10.4 The written word10.5 The spoken language of business in the Ancient World10.6 Commercial terms in various languages of the Ancient World10.7 The businessman as unsavoury personage in Greek and Latin literature10.8 Latin: Not just a lingua franca10.9 Conclusions10.10 ReferencesChapter 11. Susanne Tietze, Nigel Hoden and Wilhelm Barner-Rasmussen, Language Use in Multinational Corporations. Towards a Topography of Languages, Special Languages and Corporate Sociolects11.1 Introduction11.2 Cities and the MNC11.3 Research on language aspects of the MNC: A pragmatic perspective11.4 Linguascapes, pragmatic spaces and the topography of language11.5 Discussion11.6 Conclusion11.7 ReferencesChapter 12. Alicia Adsera and Mariola Pyltikova, Language and Migration12.1 Introduction12.2 The role of language in migration decisions12.3 Language proficiency among migrants12.4 Language and the returns to human capital12.5 Language and migrants socioeconomic assimilation12.6 Conclusions12.7 ReferencesChapter 13. Johan Heilbron and Gis`ele Sapiro, Translation: Economic and Sociological Perspectives13.1 Introduction13.2 International translation flows and the global market of translations13.3 Political, economic and cultural factors13.4 Selection, import and reception patterns13.5 Conclusions13.6 ReferencesChapter 14. Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl, Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie and Charlotte Vandeput, Languages, Fees and the International Scope of Patenting14.1 Introduction14.2 Institutional background and hypotheses14.3 Data and econometric modeling14.4 Empirical implementation and results14.5 Concluding remarks14.6 ReferencesPart III. Linguistic Policies and Economic DevelopmentChapter 15. Klaus Desmet, Ignacio Ortu~no-Ort¿?n and Romain Wacziarg, Linguistic Cleavages and Economic Development15.1 Introduction15.2 A phylogenetic approach to linguistic diversity15.3 Linguistic diversity, redistribution and economic growth15.4 Linguistic diversity and economic development15.5 Conclusion15.6 ReferencesChapter 16. Sue Wright, Language Choices: Political and Economic Factors in Three European States16.1 Introduction16.2 Nation building16.3 Language, advantage and group membership16.4 Conclusion: The role of elites16.5 ReferencesChapter 17. Selma Sonntag, Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development in South Asia17.1 Introduction17.2 India17.3 Sri Lanka17.4 Nepal17.5 Pakistan17.6 Conclusion17.7 ReferencesChapter 18. Brandon de la Cuesta and Leonard Wantchekon, Is Language Destiny? The Origins and Consequences of Ethnolinguistic Diversity in sub-Saharan Africa18.1 Introduction18.2 Why does Africa have such high levels of linguistic diversity?18.3 The economic and political effects of linguistic diversity18.4 Conclusion18.5 ReferencesChapter 19. Denis Kadochnikov, Languages, Regional Conflicts and Economic Development: Russia19.1 Introduction19.2 The standardization of the Russian language in the late medieval Russia (16-17th centuries)19.3 Language policy in the context of the reforms of Peter the Great and his successors (18th century)19.4 The role of foreign languages in Russia of the late 18th early 19th centuries19.5 Language policy in the context of the territorial expansion of the Russian Empire (17-19th centuries)19.6 Language and politics in the late imperial Russia19.7 The Socialist Revolution of 1917 and the early Soviet language policy (1920-1930s)19.8 Late Soviet language policy (1930-1980s)19.9 Russian and other languages of the Russian Federation in the post-Soviet period19.10 Summary: socio-economic and political factors and implications of language policy in Russia in historical perspective19.11 ReferencesPart IV. Globalisation and Minority LanguagesChapter 20. Jacques Melitz, English as a Global Language20.1 Introduction20.2 The status of English as a global language20.3 Areas where English faces sharp limits20.4 Language learning20.5 Welfare implications20.6 ReferencesChapter 21. François Grin, Challenges of Minority Languages21.1 Introduction21.2 What is a minority language?21.3 The economics of minority language protection and promotion21.4 Capacity, opportunity and desire: an overview of the basic model21.5 Conditions for effective policies21.6 Guidelines for language policy21.7 The costs and net value of minority language policies21.8 About contingent and absolute multilingualism21.9 Concluding remarks21.10 ReferencesAppendix Minority languages in a strict sense: selected examplesChapter 22. Bengt-ArneWickstr¿om, Language Rights: A Welfare-economics Approach22.1 Introduction22.2 Basic model22.3 Modifications due to endogenous preferences22.4 Modifications due to redistribution22.5 Conclusions22.6 ReferencesAppendix. Formal analysisChapter 23. Jos¿e Ram¿on Uriarte Ayo, A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Minority Language Use in Multilingual Societies23.1 Introduction23.2 Multilingual societies23.3 The reference point: Linguistic rights, linguistic politeness and expectations23.4 The maximin language choice23.5 Information in modern multilingual societies23.6 The ultimatum language game23.7 The bilinguals as a player population: The building of linguistic conventions23.8 Linguistic politeness equilibrium23.9 Policy suggestions23.10 Conclusions23.11 ReferencesIndex