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Summary of European, national, regional research

European level: Court cases about language problems

National level: Language, migration and work in Germany and the Czech Republic

Regional level: Language use of multinational companies 

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LINEE News
5th Issue, October 2009

Research on Language and Economy


Dear reader,

this issue of our Newsletter presents research on language and economy in Europe, conducted by our research network LINEE.

You can download the whole Newsletter as a pdf. All Newsletters are available on www.linee.info.

Study Summaries


One LINEE study indicates that Vietnamese immigrants in the Czech Republic and African immigrants in Germany can neither exploit nor improve their multilingualism at work.
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A second study shows that multinational companies value English as a widespread language, but they also value local languages, especially if their customers use them.
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A third study shows that European courts do not allow prescriptions on language use (on product labels, for example) unless they see a good reason for it.
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A study by the Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Communities, says that "in the EU in 2007, 60% of students in upper secondary education studied two or more foreign languages".
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