Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
The impact of English dominance on literature and welfare
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.
- Extent
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Seite(n): 193-215
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Postprint; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, 64(2)
- Subject
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Soziologie, Anthropologie
Kommunikationssoziologie, Sprachsoziologie, Soziolinguistik
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Mélitz, Jacques
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Niederlande
- (when)
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2007
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-199571
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Last update
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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- Zeitschriftenartikel
Associated
- Mélitz, Jacques
Time of origin
- 2007
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