The impact of English dominance on literature and welfare

Mélitz, Jacques

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dc.contributor.author	Mélitz, Jacques	de
dc.date.accessioned	2010-11-04T03:00:00Z	de
dc.date.accessioned	2012-08-29T22:31:52Z
dc.date.available	2012-08-29T22:31:52Z
dc.date.issued	2007	de
dc.identifier.uri	http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/19957
dc.description.abstract	Market forces privilege the translation of English fiction and poetry into other languages, and thus pose a danger for the accumulation of capital in the form of literature. A variety of source languages in translations makes literary capital more valuable as such. Further, the importance of writing in English in order to reach a world audience lowers the pool of talent capable of contributing to literature. The paper starts with a model of the world publishing market that explains why the dominant language acquires a disproportionate share of translations. Then the reasoning proceeds from theory to the empirical evidence.	en
dc.language	en	de
dc.subject.ddc	Sociology & anthropology	en
dc.subject.ddc	Soziologie, Anthropologie	de
dc.subject.other	Welfare; English dominance; Language; Externalities; Publishing; Translation
dc.title	The impact of English dominance on literature and welfare	en
dc.description.review	begutachtet (peer reviewed)	de
dc.description.review	peer reviewed	en
dc.source.journal	Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization	de
dc.source.volume	64	de
dc.publisher.country	NLD
dc.source.issue	2	de
dc.subject.classoz	Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik	de
dc.subject.classoz	Sociology of Communication, Sociology of Language, Sociolinguistics	en
dc.identifier.urn	urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-199571	de
dc.date.modified	2010-11-04T10:01:00Z	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	de
dc.rights.licence	PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)	en
ssoar.gesis.collection	SOLIS;ADIS	de
ssoar.contributor.institution	http://www.peerproject.eu/	de
internal.status	3	de
dc.type.stock	article	de
dc.type.document	journal article	en
dc.type.document	Zeitschriftenartikel	de
dc.rights.copyright	f	de
dc.source.pageinfo	193-215
internal.identifier.classoz	10217
internal.identifier.journal	196	de
internal.identifier.document	32
internal.identifier.ddc	301
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2006.10.003	de
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	en
dc.description.pubstatus	Postprint	de
internal.identifier.licence	7
internal.identifier.pubstatus	2
internal.identifier.review	1
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