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The impact of English dominance on literature and welfare
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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... mehr
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.... weniger
Klassifikation
Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik
Freie Schlagwörter
Welfare; English dominance; Language; Externalities; Publishing; Translation
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2007
Seitenangabe
S. 193-215
Zeitschriftentitel
Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 64 (2007) 2
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2006.10.003
Status
Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
Lizenz
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)