This study briefly summarizes the major economic, sociological and anthropological theories
on the relationship between ethnicity and economics, and examines how they can be …

This article discusses the adoption of a complexity theory approach to study the dynamics of
language contact within multilingual communities. It develops an agent-based model that …

This is a thematic issue on the relation between multilingualism and social inclusion. Due to
globalization, Europeanization, supranational and transnational regulations linguistic …

Trade-offs are solutions to translation problems where two or more apparently incompatible
values are sought at the same time. As such, they present an alternative to theories that see …

The article responds to the existing political claims that translation and interpreting reduce
the incentive of recent immigrants to learn the language (s) of the host country and thereby …

Mediation strategies are deployed when people use translation, interpreting, lingua francas,
intercomprehension, language learning, or any combination of these to communicate in …

Using official data from Eurostat, this article examines the relationship between adult
migrants' language skills and their integration in the European labour market. We use …

This study investigates Taiwan's language policies, in particular, the Bilingual Nation 2030
(BN2030), which was set to improve the English language proficiency of its citizens. I …

More than half of the world's population lives in cities. As such, cities are culmination points
of linguistic and cultural diversity with increasing mobility and international migration the …

Translation as a communication act has been studied with tools developed in neo-classical
economics, particularly cooperative outcomes, transaction costs, asymmetric information …