IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/sce/scecfa/238.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Language competition with bilinguals in social networks

Author

Listed:
  • Xavier Castelló
  • Víctor M. Eguíluz
  • Maxi San Miguel

Abstract

Several models have been proposed to study the dynamics of competition between languages. Among them, and starting from the dynamics of endangered languages, recent approaches have addressed the issue of bilingualism. Along these lines we consider the dynamics of language use, allowing for bilingualism, within a social network in the case where the two languages are equivalent. Understanding this case is a first step to describe the case of an endangered language competing against a language with higher status. Local effects are analyzed, studying interface dynamics and growth laws of the system. Power laws for the decay of interface density and bilingual population density are obtained. A final state is reached, where one of the languages disappears. We also study the stability of bilingual communities, which suggests possible explanations for the difficulty of coexistence of languages in the long term.

Suggested Citation

  • Xavier Castelló & Víctor M. Eguíluz & Maxi San Miguel, 2006. "Language competition with bilinguals in social networks," Computing in Economics and Finance 2006 238, Society for Computational Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:sce:scecfa:238
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://repec.org/sce2006/up.13816.1140806161.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    Complex systems; Language competition; social networks;
    All these keywords.

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sce:scecfa:238. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Christopher F. Baum (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/sceeeea.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.