Proficiency, Attitude and Conventions in Minority Languages

Annick Laruelle (), Noemí Navarro and Ramón Escobedo Martínez

IKERLANAK from Universidad del País Vasco - Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico I

Abstract: In this paper we study a simple mathematical model of a bilingual community in which all agents are f luent in the majority language but only a fraction of the population has some degree of pro ficiency in the minority language. We investigate how different distributions of pro ficiency, combined with the speaker´attitudes towards or against the minority language, may infl uence its use in pair conversations.

Keywords: minority; language; competition; linguistic; convention (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-10
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Journal Article: Proficiency, Attitude, and Conventions in Minority Languages (2019)
Working Paper: Proficiency, Attitude, and Conventions in Minority Languages (2016)
Working Paper: Proficiency, Attitude and Conventions in Minority Languages (2015)
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