The Economic Characteristics of Language Choice from the Perspective of Language and Society Interaction

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10.2991/assehr.k.211025.007How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Language choice, Economic characteristics, Economic principle, Human capital

Abstract

Economic behavior, as the main social behavior of human beings, uses language as direct or indirect medium connecting to coordinate different links. Based on the interactive relationship between language and society, language choice is related to people’s economic behavior. Choosing different languages or dialect variants is not only language behavior, but also concerning with language as commodity and element of human capital in different links of economic behavior. First, choosing language as a commodity can reflect its connotative relationship with economy and society. Second, linguistic selection generally follows the economy principle of least effort. Finally, the interaction of socialized language choice and commercialized languages further promotes the social importance of language as human capital.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yueping Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/10/26
TI  - The Economic Characteristics of Language Choice from the Perspective of Language and Society Interaction
BT  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Language, Communication and Culture Studies (ICLCCS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 41
EP  - 46
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211025.007
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211025.007
ID  - Wang2021
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