摘要
一种通用语会增进交流,提高经济效率,但语言的多样性也有其经济和文化价值。在当今全球化的时代中,人们的流动性日益提高,经常需要用不同的语言来进行交流。学习一门新的语言是一种人力资本投资。移民者必须学习其目的国的语言,但对于非移民者来说,如果他们的工作涉及与外国人交流的业务,那么他们也往往需要学习另一门语言。经济学研究已经表明,对一种优势语言掌握的熟练程度对经济成功至关重要,也会提高经济效率。然而,语言也是一种文化表达形式,因此,保持语言多样性也有其价值。
A common language facilitates communication and economic efficiency,but linguistic diversity has economic and cultural value too.In today’s globalized world,people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages.Learning a new language is an investment in human capital.Migrants must learn the language of their destination country,but even non-migrants must often learn other languages if their work involves communicating with foreigners.Economic studies have shown that fluency in a dominant language is important to economic success and increases economic efficiency.However,maintaining linguistic diversity also has value since language is also an expression of a culture.
作者
吉尔斯.格雷尼尔
刘国辉
Gilles Grenier;LIU Guo-hui(Department of Economics,University of Ottawa,Ottawa K1N 6N5,Canada;School of Foreign Languages,Yanbian University,Yanji 133002,China)
出处
《云南师范大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2018年第1期34-39,共6页
Journal of Yunnan Normal University：Humanities and Social Sciences Edition
关键词
语言
人力资本
移民
国际通用语
语言多样性
language
human capital
immigration
lingua franca
linguistic diversity
作者简介
吉尔斯·格雷尼尔(Gilles Grenier),男,加拿大人,渥太华大学荣休教授,研究方向为劳动经济学,特别关注劳动力市场中的语言能力及移民问题。
