La premiere partie de ce texte examine les conditions analytiques sous lesquelles on peut attribuer une valeur a une langue ou une autre, en distinguant notamment les valeurs privee et sociale, marchande et non-marchande. La seconde partie illustre la premiere a l'aide d'une estimation de la...

This paper reviews the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of economic approaches to language issues, and proposes a definition of the economics of language as a field of research in its own right. It also introduces the contributions gathered in a special issue of the...

This paper reviews the epistemological and methodological underpinnings of economic approaches to language issues, and proposes a definition of the economics of language as a field of research in its own right. It also introduces the contributions gathered in a special issue of the...

La premiere partie de ce texte examine les conditions analytiques sous lesquelles on peut attribuer une valeur a une langue ou une autre, en distinguant notamment les valeurs privee et sociale, marchande et non-marchande. La seconde partie illustre la premiere a l'aide d'une estimation de la...

This paper examines the socio-economic status of the members of Switzerland's third language community - and hence its second largest linguistic community. Our goal is to check if a minority status in a demolinguistic sense is associated, in the case of Italian-speakers, with a divergence from...