Search Results - subject:"Linguistic standardization"

Voting on the Choice of Core Languages in the European UnionÂ

Fidrmuc, Jan; Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Shlomo - Faculty of Economics and Business, Tbilisi State University - 2008

Extensive multilingualism is one of the most important and fundamental principles of the European Union (EU). However, a large number of languages (currently 23) hinders communication and imposes substantial financial and legal costs. On the other hand, the reduction of the number of languages...

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Ever closer Union or Babylonian discord? The official-language problem in the European Union

FIDRMUC, Jan; GINSBURGH, Victor; WEBER, Shlomo - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

The policy of official multilingualism is one of the most important and fundamental principles of the Union. However, a large number of official languages imposes substantial financial, communication and legal costs. We address the merits of extensive multilingualism and formulate an analytical...

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Ever Closer Union or Babylonian Discord?

Fidrmuc, Jan; Ginsburgh, Victor; Weber, Schlomo - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

. Keywords: Languages, Disenfranchisement, European Union, Linguistic standardization … linguistic groups to make compromises and to accept some sort of linguistic standardization. Indeed, the need for linguistic … a common language. 4 The main objective of this paper is to discuss the challenge of linguistic standardization …

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