LINGUIST List 21.2345 Tue May 25 2010 Books: Sociolinguistics: Grin, Sfreddo, Vaillancourt Editor for this issue: Fatemeh Abdollahi <fatemehlinguistlist.org> Links to the websites of all LINGUIST's supporting publishers are available at the end of this issue. Directory         1.    Tara Thomas, The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace: Grin, Sfreddo, Vaillancourt Message 1: The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace: Grin, Sfreddo, Vaillancourt Date: 24-May-2010 From: Tara Thomas <tara.thomastaylorandfrancis.com> Subject: The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace: Grin, Sfreddo, Vaillancourt E-mail this message to a friend Title: The Economics of the Multilingual Workplace Series Title: Routledge Studies in Sociolinguistics Published: 2010 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)                 http://www.routledge.com/ Book URL: http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415800181 Author: François Grin Author: Claudio Sfreddo Author: François Vaillancourt Electronic: ISBN: 9780203852675 Pages: 228 Price: U.S. $ 120 Comment: Available Now Electronic: ISBN: 9780203852675 Pages: 228 Price: U.K. £ 120 Comment: Available July 1, 2010 Hardback: ISBN: 9780415800181 Pages: 228 Price: U.K. £ 80 Comment: Available July 1, 2010 Hardback: ISBN: 9780415800181 Pages: 228 Price: U.S. $ 120 Comment: Available Now Abstract: This book proposes a path-breaking study of the economics of multilingualism at work, proposing a systematic approach to the identification and measurement of the ways in which language skills and economic performance are related. Using the instruments of economic investigation, but also explicitly relating the analysis to the approaches to multilingualism at work developed in the language sciences, this interdisciplinary book proposes a systematic, step-by-step exploration of the issue. Starting from a general identification of the linkages between multilingualism and processes of value creation, it reviews the contributions of linguistics and economics before developing a new economic model of production in which language is taken into account. Testing of the model using data from two countries provides quantitative estimations of the influence of multilingualism on economic processes, showing that foreign language skills can make a considerable contribution to a country's GDP. These findings have significant implications for language policy and suggest strategies helping language planners to harness market forces for increased effectiveness. Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Written In: English (eng ) See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=48546 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue -------------------------- Major Supporters -------------------------- Brill http://www.brill.nl Cambridge Scholars Publishing http://www.c-s-p.org Cambridge University Press http://us.cambridge.org Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/ Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd http://www.continuumbooks.com De Gruyter Mouton http://www.degruyter.com/mouton Edinburgh University Press http://www.eup.ed.ac.uk/ Elsevier Ltd http://www.elsevier.com/linguistics Emerald Group Publishing Limited http://www.emeraldinsight.com/ European Language Resources Association - ELRA http://www.elra.info. Georgetown University Press http://www.press.georgetown.edu John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/ Lincom GmbH http://www.lincom.eu MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/ Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/ Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/ Oxford University Press http://www.oup.com/us Palgrave Macmillan http://www.palgrave.com Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com Rodopi http://www.rodopi.nl/ Routledge (Taylor and Francis) http://www.routledge.com/ Springer http://www.springer.com University of Toronto Press http://www.utpjournals.com/ Wiley-Blackwell http://www.wiley.com ---------------------- Other Supporting Publishers ---------------------- Association of Editors of the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics http://www.fl.ul.pt/revistas/JPL/JPLweb.htm Graduate Linguistic Students' Association, Umass http://glsa.hypermart.net/ International Pragmatics Assoc. http://www.ipra.be Langues et Linguistique http://y.ennaji.free.fr/fr/ Linguistic Association of Finland http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/sky/ Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke - LOT http://www.lotpublications.nl/ Pacific Linguistics http://pacling.anu.edu.au/ SIL International http://www.ethnologue.com/bookstore.asp St. Jerome Publishing Ltd http://www.stjerome.co.uk Utrecht institute of Linguistics http://www-uilots.let.uu.nl/ Page Updated: 25-May-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.