François Grin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 176422 |
|---|---|
| NOME | François Grin |
| PRENOMES | François |
| SOBRENOME | Grin |
| ASSINATURA | GRIN F |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0435-7547 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 130 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1990 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Economic Analysis of Language Policy and Planning
The economic analysis of language policy and planning (LPP) offers a systematic approach to the selection, design, and evaluation (whether ex ante or ex post ) of LPP measures.
Multilingualism in Economic Activity
This entry shows that the interest in the links between multilingualism and economic activity began in the early 1970s with the realization that economic activity could be seen as a “domain” in the sociolinguistic sense. Economics of language can contribute to the understanding of processes such as the determinants of language learning, language use, and language dynamics, at the micro and macro levels. Numerous empirical studies have examined th…
Group creativity in context
Les universités francophones entre internationalisation et anglicisation
Ce texte aborde la tendance fréquemment observée dans les pratiques des universités des pays non anglophones, notamment au niveau des instances décisionnelles, à accorder, sans guère de recul critique, une place considérable à la langue anglaise. Cette tendance est nette dans la plupart des universités européennes, universités ayant historiquement, socialement et politiquement vocation à travailler en français. On tente ici, au-delà du constat, d…
Progress in LPP
This paper addresses some of the challenges to mainstream research in the social sciences and humanities (SSH) thrown up by “critical perspectives”, which encompass contributions from postmodern theory as well as recent developments in the range of specialties known as “critical studies”. Since these challenges influence substantial tracts of scholarly discourse about linguistic diversity as well as about social and political responses to this di…
Measuring Linguistic Diversity
This paper proposes a novel approach to the measurement of linguistic diversity. Drawing on the ecological literature, it proposes an adaptation to languages of the classic distinction between “alpha” (intra-setting), “beta” (inter-setting) and “gamma” (system-level) diversity. We begin by discussing some of the general challenges raised by the measurement of diversity. We review received approaches to the measurement of diversity resting on the …
Multicultural experience and multilingualism as predictors of creativity
Aims and objectives: Past research has shown that multicultural experience and multilingualism can be positively associated with creativity. However, very few studies have focused simultaneously on all these variables. Our aim is to consider both sets of predictors simultaneously, clarifying whether the impact of these variables on creativity is cumulative or redundant. Design/methodology/approach: The design combines correlational and quasi-expe…
Trying to think out of the box
MIME is a research project on “the multilingual challenge for the European citizen” financed by the European Commission (EC) in Framework Programme No. 7 (FP7). It ran from 2014 through 2018. The MIME project has given rise to numerous outputs in the form of papers, lectures, conference panels, etc. (see www.mime-project.org for details), and the project results are summarized in several publications (Grin et al. 2018; Grin 2018a, 2018b). Given t…
The role of LPLP in a changing landscape
There seems to be a broad consensus nowadays among scholars, politicians, journalists and citizens at large that in the course of the last few decades, and particularly since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, linguistic and cultural diversity has moved to the forefront of public concerns. The prominence of linguistic and cultural diversity as a major social issue of our times is an interesting fact in its own right. Some fifty years ago, techn…
Multilingualism and creativity
This paper proposes a contribution to the investigation of the relation between multilingualism and creativity. Past evidence of a correlation between multilingualism and creativity is reviewed in a generalist perspective, that is, without focusing on a specific population such as migrants or highly proficient bilinguals. This review is also anchored in contemporary cognitive psychology and specialised research on creativity, allowing for a consi…
Translation and language policy in the dynamics of multilingualism
Many of Fishman's contributions to understanding language in society stress the importance of dynamics, drawing attention to the complex interplay of micro-, meso- and macro-level factors from which an integrated pattern emerges. Our understanding of language dynamics, therefore, should encompass processes unfolding at various levels and provide accounts that do justice to these interactions, while delivering an analysis broad enough to constitut…
Dépasser les idées reçues
Is ELF more effective and fair than translation? An evaluation of the EU's multilingual regime
The management of multilingualism in the European Union ( EU ) has become an increasingly debated issue. Some argue that ‘ E nglish as a lingua franca’ ( ELF ) should help solve many of the attendant challenges. The claim is sometimes made that ELF , as a multilingual way of using E nglish, is no longer dependent upon the practices and representations of native speakers and therefore poses no threat to linguistic diversity or to fairness. In this…
Multilingualism in Economic Activity
The interest in the links between multilingualism and economic activity is relatively recent.
Pourquoi donc apprendre l’anglais ? Le point de vue des élèves
L’enseignement des langues étrangères dans les systèmes éducatifs répond à des considérations qui sont très rarement basées sur un examen systématique des objetifs poursuivis. En général, on se contente d’admettre que telle ou telle langue étrangère « doit » faire partie du curriculum (en invoquant, à la rigueur, des arguments assez vagues sur la valeur professionnelle et/ou culturelle de la langue concernée). La récente introduction (2000) d’une…
Assessing efficiency and fairness in multilingual communication
The comparison between various language policies that aim to manage multilingual communication ought to rely on some robust methodology for evaluation. This paper discusses the possibility to found such a methodology on the well-established concepts of efficiency and fairness. Assessing efficiency implies comparing how resources are allocated under alternative policy options (or scenarios) in order to identify the policy promising the best overal…
Économie et langue
On the reciprocal influence of language politics and language education
Linguistic human rights as a source of policy guidelines
The 'linguistic human rights'(LHR) perspective, though relevant to the protection and promotion of minority languages (or, more generally, of linguistic diversity), displays one major weakness, namely, its almost exclusive reliance on moral considerations. Although LHR advocates often back up their claims with other (including economic) arguments, the latter often fail to pass 'hard' validation tests. Hence, the actual import of LHR arguments is …
Robert Phillipson. English-Only Europe? Challenging Language Policy
Language Policy Evaluation and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
This book proposes an innovative treatment of minority language policies, by looking at them as policy options that can be methodically evaluated. The author applies the analytical concepts and techni
Modalités de financement de l’éducation, efficience et équité
Ce numéro thématique de la
Language Planning and Economics
This paper proposes a comprehensive overview of the ‘economics of language'. This field of research, which is grounded in the discipline of economics, displays a strong interdisciplinary orientation, which places it on the fringes of mainstream economics. It studies the ways in which linguistic and economic processes influence one another. It is also well placed to contribute to the evaluation of public policies regarding language, because it off…
Mari Jones C. Language Obsolescence and Revitalization
Bilingual Education and Linguistic Governance
In this paper, we offer a succinct overview of the Swiss context and the experience of Switzerland with bilingual education. In Section 1, we brie fly characterise the issue at a general level, providing some de finitions necessary for the ensuing discussion. In Section 2, we review the main features of ‘linguistic governance' in Switzerland, with reference to its demolinguistic, geolinguistic and historical context. Section 3 presents the main t…
Language Planning and Economics
This paper proposes a comprehensive overview of the ‘economics of language'. This field of research, which is grounded in the discipline of economics, displays a strong interdisciplinary orientation, which places it on the fringes of mainstream economics. It studies the ways in which linguistic and economic processes influence one another. It is also well placed to contribute to the evaluation of public policies regarding language, because it off…
English as economic value
This paper offers an overview of the economic approach to the question of the 'value' of English. In the first section, I discuss the reasons why this question is attracting increasing attention, showing that it reflects an increase in the objective frequency of contact between speakers of different languages, as well as a concern for the role of English in those contacts. Section 2 presents five important analytical distinctions which help to st…
Linguistic human rights as a source of policy guidelines
The 'linguistic human rights'(LHR) perspective, though relevant to the protection and promotion of minority languages (or, more generally, of linguistic diversity), displays one major weakness, namely, its almost exclusive reliance on moral considerations. Although LHR advocates often back up their claims with other (including economic) arguments, the latter often fail to pass 'hard' validation tests. Hence, the actual import of LHR arguments is …
The Economics of Language
The economics of language is an interdisciplinary field of inves tigation which explores the mutual effect of language-related and economic variables. This paper reviews the main orientations and results of research, and then critically assesses the nature of standard assump tions made in the economics of language. It is shown that many of these assumptions can be expanded or adapted in order to increase the scope of relevant causal links that ca…
Is ELF more effective and fair than translation? An evaluation of the EU's multilingual regime
The management of multilingualism in the European Union ( EU ) has become an increasingly debated issue. Some argue that ‘ E nglish as a lingua franca’ ( ELF ) should help solve many of the attendant challenges. The claim is sometimes made that ELF , as a multilingual way of using E nglish, is no longer dependent upon the practices and representations of native speakers and therefore poses no threat to linguistic diversity or to fairness. In this…
The economic approach to minority languages
This paper begins with a brief survey of existing contributions about language by economists. The relevance of these contributions to the specific case of minority languages in Europe is then critically assessed. After defining what is meant here by ‘minority language’, the paper explains the fundamental economic reasoning on the basis of which minority language use can be modelled. A simple model of minority language use is developed, providing …
Multilingualism and creativity
This paper proposes a contribution to the investigation of the relation between multilingualism and creativity. Past evidence of a correlation between multilingualism and creativity is reviewed in a generalist perspective, that is, without focusing on a specific population such as migrants or highly proficient bilinguals. This review is also anchored in contemporary cognitive psychology and specialised research on creativity, allowing for a consi…
European Economic Integration and the Fate of Lesser-Used Languages
SOMMAIRE L'intégration économique de l'Europe et le sort des langues moins répandues L'intégration économique de l'Europe déploie déjà ses effets dans des domaines importants de la vie publique et privée, et cette tendance ne peut qu'être renforcée par l'entrée en vigueur du "marché unique". Cet article analyse les conséquences de cette évolution sur ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler les langues moins répandues en Europe. En se basant sur un modèle …
The Estonian Language Law
SOMMAIRE La loi linguistique estonienne: présentation commentée Cet article offre une présentation générale de la loi linguistique adoptée par l'Estonie en 1989. Nous commençons par décrire les articles du texte de loi en suivant l'ordre de présentation de l'original, avant d'en résumer les titres principaux dans une table thématique permettant un survol plus rapide. Enfin, certains aspects de cette législation sont évalués de manière critique en…
The role of LPLP in a changing landscape
There seems to be a broad consensus nowadays among scholars, politicians, journalists and citizens at large that in the course of the last few decades, and particularly since the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, linguistic and cultural diversity has moved to the forefront of public concerns. The prominence of linguistic and cultural diversity as a major social issue of our times is an interesting fact in its own right. Some fifty years ago, techn…
The relevance of thresholds in language maintenance and shift
The decline of many minority languages, and the associated shift towards majority languages, raises the question of whether there is a point of no return, or ‘threshold’ in the process. This paper develops a formal model of language vitality as a function of preferences for conducting activities in one or the other language, percentage of minority‐language speakers, and expectations‐based adjustment to the observed change in language vitality. It…
Measuring Linguistic Diversity
This paper proposes a novel approach to the measurement of linguistic diversity. Drawing on the ecological literature, it proposes an adaptation to languages of the classic distinction between “alpha” (intra-setting), “beta” (inter-setting) and “gamma” (system-level) diversity. We begin by discussing some of the general challenges raised by the measurement of diversity. We review received approaches to the measurement of diversity resting on the …
Translation and language policy in the dynamics of multilingualism
Many of Fishman's contributions to understanding language in society stress the importance of dynamics, drawing attention to the complex interplay of micro-, meso- and macro-level factors from which an integrated pattern emerges. Our understanding of language dynamics, therefore, should encompass processes unfolding at various levels and provide accounts that do justice to these interactions, while delivering an analysis broad enough to constitut…
Bilingual Education and Linguistic Governance
In this paper, we offer a succinct overview of the Swiss context and the experience of Switzerland with bilingual education. In Section 1, we brie fly characterise the issue at a general level, providing some de finitions necessary for the ensuing discussion. In Section 2, we review the main features of ‘linguistic governance' in Switzerland, with reference to its demolinguistic, geolinguistic and historical context. Section 3 presents the main t…
The bilingual advertising decision
This paper examines the relationship between linguistic plurality and the rationale of advertising decisions. The presence of two or more languages on one market modifies the traditional advertising problem, and in the absence of literature on the subject, a logical first step is to develop a basic model. This paper presents a simple model of sales to different language groups as a function of the level of advertising in each language, language a…
The economic approach to minority languages
This paper begins with a brief survey of existing contributions about language by economists. The relevance of these contributions to the specific case of minority languages in Europe is then critically assessed. After defining what is meant here by ‘minority language’, the paper explains the fundamental economic reasoning on the basis of which minority language use can be modelled. A simple model of minority language use is developed, providing …
The Estonian Language Law
SOMMAIRE La loi linguistique estonienne: présentation commentée Cet article offre une présentation générale de la loi linguistique adoptée par l'Estonie en 1989. Nous commençons par décrire les articles du texte de loi en suivant l'ordre de présentation de l'original, avant d'en résumer les titres principaux dans une table thématique permettant un survol plus rapide. Enfin, certains aspects de cette législation sont évalués de manière critique en…
European Economic Integration and the Fate of Lesser-Used Languages
SOMMAIRE L'intégration économique de l'Europe et le sort des langues moins répandues L'intégration économique de l'Europe déploie déjà ses effets dans des domaines importants de la vie publique et privée, et cette tendance ne peut qu'être renforcée par l'entrée en vigueur du "marché unique". Cet article analyse les conséquences de cette évolution sur ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler les langues moins répandues en Europe. En se basant sur un modèle …
The relevance of thresholds in language maintenance and shift
The decline of many minority languages, and the associated shift towards majority languages, raises the question of whether there is a point of no return, or ‘threshold’ in the process. This paper develops a formal model of language vitality as a function of preferences for conducting activities in one or the other language, percentage of minority‐language speakers, and expectations‐based adjustment to the observed change in language vitality. It…
The bilingual advertising decision
This paper examines the relationship between linguistic plurality and the rationale of advertising decisions. The presence of two or more languages on one market modifies the traditional advertising problem, and in the absence of literature on the subject, a logical first step is to develop a basic model. This paper presents a simple model of sales to different language groups as a function of the level of advertising in each language, language a…
The Economics of Language
The economics of language is an interdisciplinary field of inves tigation which explores the mutual effect of language-related and economic variables. This paper reviews the main orientations and results of research, and then critically assesses the nature of standard assump tions made in the economics of language. It is shown that many of these assumptions can be expanded or adapted in order to increase the scope of relevant causal links that ca…
The economics of foreign language competence
(1995). The economics of foreign language competence: A research project of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development: Vol. 16, No. 3, pp. 227-231
Gérer le plurilinguisme européen
Kalmykia, victim of Stalinist genocide
Kalmykia, victim of Stalinist genocide
Kalmykia may be described as a nation back from the brink. Until the recent past, when the personality of an eccentric leader generated media attention, the Kalmyks were known essentially for one reason: they were one of the peoples deported under Stalin, and permitted to return in the wake of Khrushchev's famous speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 1956. However, Kalmykia deserves attention for other reasons. Apart from its high…
English as economic value
This paper offers an overview of the economic approach to the question of the 'value' of English. In the first section, I discuss the reasons why this question is attracting increasing attention, showing that it reflects an increase in the objective frequency of contact between speakers of different languages, as well as a concern for the role of English in those contacts. Section 2 presents five important analytical distinctions which help to st…
Mari Jones C. Language Obsolescence and Revitalization
Bilingual Education and Linguistic Governance
In this paper, we offer a succinct overview of the Swiss context and the experience of Switzerland with bilingual education. In Section 1, we brie fly characterise the issue at a general level, providing some de finitions necessary for the ensuing discussion. In Section 2, we review the main features of ‘linguistic governance' in Switzerland, with reference to its demolinguistic, geolinguistic and historical context. Section 3 presents the main t…
Language Policy Evaluation and the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages
This book proposes an innovative treatment of minority language policies, by looking at them as policy options that can be methodically evaluated. The author applies the analytical concepts and techni
Modalités de financement de l’éducation, efficience et équité
Ce numéro thématique de la
Language Planning and Economics
This paper proposes a comprehensive overview of the ‘economics of language'. This field of research, which is grounded in the discipline of economics, displays a strong interdisciplinary orientation, which places it on the fringes of mainstream economics. It studies the ways in which linguistic and economic processes influence one another. It is also well placed to contribute to the evaluation of public policies regarding language, because it off…
Robert Phillipson. English-Only Europe? Challenging Language Policy
Économie et langue
On the reciprocal influence of language politics and language education
Linguistic human rights as a source of policy guidelines
The 'linguistic human rights'(LHR) perspective, though relevant to the protection and promotion of minority languages (or, more generally, of linguistic diversity), displays one major weakness, namely, its almost exclusive reliance on moral considerations. Although LHR advocates often back up their claims with other (including economic) arguments, the latter often fail to pass 'hard' validation tests. Hence, the actual import of LHR arguments is …
Pourquoi donc apprendre l’anglais ? Le point de vue des élèves
L’enseignement des langues étrangères dans les systèmes éducatifs répond à des considérations qui sont très rarement basées sur un examen systématique des objetifs poursuivis. En général, on se contente d’admettre que telle ou telle langue étrangère « doit » faire partie du curriculum (en invoquant, à la rigueur, des arguments assez vagues sur la valeur professionnelle et/ou culturelle de la langue concernée). La récente introduction (2000) d’une…
Assessing efficiency and fairness in multilingual communication
The comparison between various language policies that aim to manage multilingual communication ought to rely on some robust methodology for evaluation. This paper discusses the possibility to found such a methodology on the well-established concepts of efficiency and fairness. Assessing efficiency implies comparing how resources are allocated under alternative policy options (or scenarios) in order to identify the policy promising the best overal…
Multilingualism in Economic Activity
The interest in the links between multilingualism and economic activity is relatively recent.
Is ELF more effective and fair than translation? An evaluation of the EU's multilingual regime
The management of multilingualism in the European Union ( EU ) has become an increasingly debated issue. Some argue that ‘ E nglish as a lingua franca’ ( ELF ) should help solve many of the attendant challenges. The claim is sometimes made that ELF , as a multilingual way of using E nglish, is no longer dependent upon the practices and representations of native speakers and therefore poses no threat to linguistic diversity or to fairness. In this…
Dépasser les idées reçues
Political science (21 obras) · Linguistics (16 obras) · Second Language Learning and Teaching (14 obras) · Sociology (14 obras) · Computer Science (13 obras) · Multilingual Education and Policy (12 obras) · Philosophy (11 obras) · Economics (10 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Multilingualism (8 obras)