<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lpren@caltalk.cal.org">lpren@caltalk.cal.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Nov 22, 2012 at 6:38 AM<br><br>CESifo Workshop on “The Economics of Language Policy”<br>
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<p><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">CAL Language Policy Research Network</span><br>
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<p><span lang="EN-GB">Call for papers <br>
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<b>CESifo Workshop on “The Economics of Language Policy” </b><br>
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Venice, 26-27 July 2013 <br>
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Info: </span><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/events/academic-conferences/details?iframeUrl=http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/mgnl/Conferences/_confDetailMGNL%3fpConfId=2929" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-GB">http://www.cesifo-group.de/ifoHome/events/academic-conferences/details?iframeUrl=http://www.cesifo-group.de/portal/page/portal/mgnl/Conferences/_confDetailMGNL%3fpConfId=2929</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB">
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The intention of the workshop is to bring together economists with
sociolinguists, political scientists and sociologists, as well as
scientists from other disciplines without removing the focus of the
workshop from economics. The aim of the conference is a
scientific exchange on language-policy issues from different
methodological perspectives, furthering the development of the field of
economics and language and strengthening its theoretical and empirical
connections to research on language policy and language
planning based in other disciplines. Papers from economists and
researches from other disciplines working on issues of language policy
are solicited. The following is a non-exhaustive list of possible
specific themes of individual contributions:
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<ul type="disc"><li><span lang="EN-GB">languages and economic
efficiency (e.g. languages in the labor market, language as a public
good, linguistic diversity and trade, languages and firms)
</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">language dynamics and network-externality properties
</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">language and ethnic and social identity </span>
<span lang="EN-GB"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">language and economic and social power </span>
<span lang="EN-GB"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">evaluation of the costs and distributive consequences of alternative language policies
</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">normative evaluation of official-language policies
</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></li><li><span lang="EN-GB">techniques to evaluate the material and symbolic value of languages (e.g. tools adapted from environmental economics)
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<p><i><span lang="DE">Organisers</span></i><span lang="DE">: Bengt-Arne Wickström and Michele Gazzola, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.</span><span lang="DE"><br>
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</span><i><span lang="EN-GB">Keynote speakers </span></i><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
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Victor Ginsburgh, Université Libre de Bruxelles <br>
François Grin, Université de Genève <br>
Stephen May, University of Auckland <br>
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The deadline for the submission of the preliminary version of papers is the <b>5 April 2013</b>.
Authors of papers that are accepted for presentation at the workshop
will be notified by the end of April. The submission of preliminary
papers is accepted.The
final version of accepted papers have, however, to be available by 28
June 2013 for dissemination to conference participants and discussants
and inclusion into conference materials. A selection of the conference
papers will be published in a Conference Volume
by MIT Press.</span><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<span lang="EN-GB"></span><span lang="EN-GB">CESifo will provide accommodation and will reimburse economy travel costs for all participants with accepted papers.</span>
<p> </p><br></div>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br> Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br> Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br>
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