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The Economics of Multilingualism: Overview and Analytical Framework

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François Grin  and
François Vaillancourt
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The purpose of this paper is to introduce noneconomists to the economics of multilingualism. This area of research is relatively little known among economists, and until recent years, few of its methods and results had been published in the journals usually read by language specialists, although sociolinguists and applied linguists had for many years been pointing out the importance of economic dimensions in their research field. It is therefore useful to begin with a brief review of the literature which, owing to limitations of space, does not report specific results, but lists the major issues that have been examined to date. More extensive surveys are available in Vaillancourt (1985a) and Grin (1994c; 1996e).

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Foundations of Multilingualism
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Annual Review of Applied Linguistics , Volume 17 , March 1997 , pp. 43 - 65
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1997

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