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Dr. Michele GAZZOLA
Ulster University
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Books

  1. The Evaluation of Language Regimes: Theory and Application to Multilingual Patent Organisations. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins (2014).

Edited books

  1. Language Policy and Linguistic Justice: Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic Approaches (with Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin), New York/Berlin: Springer (2018).

  2. The Economics of Language Policy (with Bengt-Arne Wickström), Cambridge (MA): MIT Press (2016).

Peer-reviewed journals

  1. Multilingualism and the international patent system: An assessment of the fairness of the language policy of WIPO, Journal of Industry, Competition and Trade, vol. 17, n. 3, p. 349-369 (2017).

  2. Programmazione e controllo della 'politica del plurilinguismo' nell'amministrazione federale svizzera, [“Programming and monitoring of the ‘policy of plurilingualism’ in the Swiss federal administration”], Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, vol. 45, n. 3, p. 479-497 (2016).

  3. The EU's financial support for regional or minority languages: A historical assessment (with François Grin, Tom Moring and Johan Häggmann), Treatises and Documents - Journal of Ethnic Studies (Razprave in gradivo, Revija za narodnostna vprašanja), n. 77, p. 33-66 (2016).

  4. Multilingual communication for whom? Language policy and fairness in the European Union, European Union Politics, vol. 17, n. 4, p. 546-569, (2016).

  5. Identifying and mitigating linguistic inequalities in the management of patent information in Europe, World Patent Information, vol. 40, p. 43-50, (2015).

  6. Partecipazione, esclusione linguistica e traduzione: Una valutazione del regime linguistico dell’Unione europea [“Participation, linguistic exclusion and translation: An evaluation of the language regime of the EU”] , Studi Italiani di Linguistica Teorica e Applicata, vol. 43, n. 2, p. 227-264, (2014).

  7. Linguistic justice in IP policies: Evaluating the language regime of the European Patent Office (with Alessia Volpe), European Journal of Law and Economics, vol. 38, p. 47-70, (2014).

  8. Is ELF more effective and fair than translation? An evaluation of the EU’s multilingual regime (with François Grin), International Journal of Applied Linguistics, vol. 23, n.1, p. 93-107, (2013).

  9. The linguistic implications of academic performance indicators: General trends and case study, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, n. 216, p. 131-156, (2012).

  10. La valutazione della ricerca e l’internazionalizzazione dell’università: quali effetti sulla diversità linguistica? [“The evaluation of research activities and the internationalisation of universities: what effects on linguistic diversity?], Plurilinguismo, vol. 15, p. 43-58, (2010).

  11. Assessing efficiency and fairness in multilingual communication: Towards a general analytical framework, (with François Grin), AILA Review, vol. 20, p. 87-105, (2007).

  12. Managing multilingualism in the European Union: Language policy evaluation for the European Parliament, Language Policy, vol. 5, n. 4, p. 393-417, (2006).

  13. Lingue, potere e conflitto. L’economia della guerra delle lingue in Europa [“Language, power and conflict: the economics of language war in Europe”], Metàbasis, vol. 1, n. 1, p. 1-15, (2006). 

Book chapters and conference proceedings

  1. Evaluating language policy and planning: An introduction to the economics approach, (with François Grin and François Vaillancourt), in Cécile B. Vigouroux and Salikoko S. Mufwene (eds.), Bridging Linguistics and Economics. Chicago: Chicago University Press (forthcoming, 2019).

  2. An economics approach to language policy and linguistic justice (with Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin), in Michele Gazzola, Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin (eds.) Language Policy and Linguistic Justice: Economic, Philosophical and Sociolinguistic Approaches, New York/Berlin: Springer, p. 3-64 (2018).

  3. Le plurilinguisme européen après le Brexit. Quels effets sur la participation démocratique et la mobilité des citoyens européens ? ["EU multilingualism after Brexit. What effects on democratic participation and mobility of European citizens?"], (with Till Burckhardt), in Jean-Claude Barbier (ed.), Quel avenir pour l'Europe sociale dans le contexte du retour des nations. Paris: La Documentation Française, p. 75-103 (2018).

  4. Sind Fremdsprachenkenntnisse mit dem Einkommen und der Beschäftigung verbunden? Empirische Evidenz aus Deutschland und aus der Welt ["Are language skills associated with income and employment? Evidence from Germany and the world"] (with Sabrina Hahm and Bengt-Arne Wickström), in Cyrill Brosch and Sabine Fiedler (eds.) Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft für Interlinguistik. Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag, p. 57-79 (2018).

  5. Les classements des universités et les indicateurs bibliométriques: Quels effets sur le multilinguisme dans l’enseignement et la recherche? ["University rankings and bibliometric indicators: What effects on multilingualism in teaching and research?"], in Le Lièvre, Françoise, Mathilde Anquetil, Lisbeth Verstraete-Hansen, Christiane Fäcke, and Martine Derivry (eds.), Langues et cultures dans l’internationalisation de l’enseignement supérieur au XXIe siècle. (Re)penser les politiques linguistiques : anglais et plurilinguisme. Bern/Berlin: Peter Lang, p. 131-162 (2018).

  6. Il valore economico del plurilinguismo. Principi generali e considerazioni sul caso dell’italiano ["The economic value of multilingualism. General principles and considerations concerning the case of Italian"] (with Daniele Mazzacani), in Noli, Valeria (ed.), Geocultura: Prospettive, strumenti, strategie per un mondo in italiano, Rome: Società Dante Alighieri, p. 23-32 (2017).

  7. Multilinguismo ed economia in Italia ["Multilingualism in the Italian economy"], in Cabiddu, Maria Agostina (ed.), L'italiano alla prova dell'internazionalizzazione. Milan: Guerini, p. 59-82 (2017).

  8. Comparative language policy and evaluation: Concepts, indicators and implications for translation policy, (with François Grin), in Reine Meylaerts and Gabriel González Nuñez (eds.), Translation and Public Policy: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Case Studies. London: Routledge, p. 83-112 (2017).

  9. Language skills and employment status of adult migrants in Europe, in Beacco, Jean-Claude, Hans-Jürgen Krumm, David Little and Philia Thalgott (eds.), The linguistic integration of adult migrants. Some lessons from research”. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter-Mouton, p. 297-302 (2017).

  10. Multilinguisme et équité : l’impact d’un changement de régime linguistique européen en Espagne, France et Italie ["Multilingualism and equity: the impact of a change in the language regime of the EU in Spain, France and Italy"], in Agresti, Giovanni and Joseph G. Turi (eds.), Représentations sociales des langues et politiques linguistiques. Déterminismes, implications, regardes croisés. Rome: Aracne, p. 269-286 (2017).

  11. Introduction (with Bengt-Arne Wickström), in Gazzola, Michele and Bengt-Arne Wickström (eds.), The Economics of Language Policy. Cambridge (MA)/London: MIT Press, p. 1-18 (2016).

  12. A concise bibliography of language economics (with François Grin and Bengt-Arne Wickström), in Gazzola, Michele and Bengt-Arne Wickström (eds.), The Economics of Language Policy. Cambridge (MA)/London: MIT Press, p. 53-92, (2016).

  13. Economic research on English in Europe, in Linn, Andrew (ed.), Investigating English in Europe – Contexts and Agendas. Berlin/Boston, De Gruyter-Mouton, p. 185-191, (2016).

  14. EU language policy and English, in Linn, Andrew (ed.), Investigating English in Europe – Contexts and Agendas. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter-Mouton, p. 138-144, (2016).

  15. Il valore economico delle lingue ["The economic value of languages"], in Gobbo, Federico (ed.), Lingua, politica, cultura: Serta gratulatoria in honorem Renato Corsetti. New York: Mondial, p. 47-54, (2016).

  16. Documenti e orientamenti dell'Unione europea in materia di multilinguismo ["EU documents and guidelines on multilingualism: a taxonomy"], in Caretti, Paolo and Giuseppe Mobilio (eds.), La lingua come fattore di integrazione sociale e politica. Turin: Giappichelli, p. 99-132 (2016).

  17. Valutare una politica linguistica. Teoria e applicazione all’Organizzazione mondiale della proprietà intellettuale ["Evaluating a language policy. Theory and application to the World Intellectual Property Organisation"], in Bruno, Carla, Simone Casini, Francesca Gallina, Reymond Siebetcheu (eds.), Plurilinguismo / Sintassi. Atti del XLVI Congresso Internazionale di Studi della Società di Linguistica Italiana (SLI). Rome: Bulzoni, p. 67-84, (2015).

  18. Lingva justeco: kiel taksi ĝin? La ekzemplo de Eŭropa Unio ("Linguistic Justice: How to evaluate it? The example of the European Union"], in Vergara, José-Antonio (ed.), Proceedings of the Internacia Kongresa Universitato, 67th session. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, p. 74-89, (2014).

  19. Assessing efficiency and fairness in multilingual communication: theory and application through indicators (with François Grin), in Berthoud, Anne-Claude, François Grin and Georges Lüdi (eds.), Exploring the Dynamics of Multilingualism. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, p. 365–386, (2013).

  20. Perché l’anglificazione completa dei programmi universitari è inefficace e iniqua ["Why teaching only in English is ineffective and unfair"], in Maraschio, Nicoletta and Domenico De Martino (eds.), Fuori l’italiano dall’università? Inglese, internazionalizzazione, politica linguistica. Rome: Laterza. p. 87-94, (2012).

  21. La puissance économique du français ["The economic power of French"] (with François Grin), in Maurais, Jacques (ed.), L'avenir du français. Paris: Editions des archives contemporaines, p. 53-57, (2008).

  22. La gestione del multilinguismo nell'Unione europea ["Managing multilingualism in the EU"], in Carli, Augusto (ed.), Le sfide della politica linguistica di oggi. Fra la valorizzazione del multilinguismo migratorio locale e le istanze del plurilinguismo europeo. Milan: FrancoAngeli, p. 17-117, (2006).

Non peer-reviewed academic journals

  1. The politics and policy of multilingualism in the European Union (with Rocco Ronza), The Brown Journal of World Affairs, (2018, forthcoming.

  2. Il multilinguismo svizzero nel sistema europeo dei brevetti, Babylonia, n. 3, p. 54-57 (2014).

  3. Conti precisi sull’importanza economica delle lingue nei brevetti industriali, La Crusca per Voi, n. 42, April, p. 8-10, (2011).

  4. L’approccio economico alla pianificazione linguistica. Contributi recenti e riflessioni generali, Lingua Italiana d’Oggi (LId’O), vol. 6, p. 103-117, (2010).

  5. Quali lingue per il brevetto dell’Unione europea? Un’analisi economica, La Crusca per Voi, n. 41, October, p 7-10 (2010).

  6. Le traversie dell’italiano in Europa: il caso dei concorsi comunitari, La Crusca per Voi, n. 40, April, p. 4-6, (2010).

  7. Una tassa linguistica sui paesi anglofoni? Equità e comunicazione internazionale in Europa, Lingua Italiana d’Oggi (LId’O), vol. 5, p. 123-126, (2009).

  8. Le conseguenze linguistiche dell’internazionalizzazione dell’Università in Europa, Multilinguismo e Società, p. 61-69, (2009).

    • Catalan translation: “La internacionalització de les universitats europees: Els reptes en matèria de política lingüística”, in Esperanto i drets lingüístics, Recull d’articles 2005-2008, Hèctor Alòs i Font (ed.). Bacelona: Associació Catalana d’Esperanto, p. 30-35, (2008).

    • Esperanto translation: “Lingva diverseco kaj la internaciigo de la universitatoj en Eŭropo”, in Blanke, Detlev, and Ulrich Lins (ed.): La arto labori kune. Festlibro por Humphrey Tonkin. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, p. 151-156, (2010).

  9. I sistemi di valutazione dell’Università: quali insidie per l’italiano?, La Crusca per Voi, n. 38, April, p. 8-12, (2009).

  10. Internazionalizzazione dell’Università e nuove sfide per la lingua italiana, La Crusca per Voi, n. 36, April 2008, p. 3-8, (2008).

Research reports

  1. Il valore delle competenze linguistiche: Il Piano “Trentino Trilingue” visto da una prospettiva economica. Trento: Provincia autonoma di Trento – Istituto provinciale per la ricerca e la sperimentazione educativa (IPRASE) (2017).

  2. European Strategy for Multilingualism: Benefits and Costs, Brussels: European Parliament, (2016).

  3. The aspect of culture in the social inclusion of ethnic minorities. Evaluation of the impact of inclusion policies under the open method of co-ordination: Assessing the cultural policies of six Member States of the European Union, (with Tove Malloy), Flensburg: European Centre for Minority Issues (ECMI). Project funded by the European Commission, (2006).

Reviews

  1. Stefaan van der Jeught: EU Language Law, Language Problems & Language Planning (2019, forthcoming).

  2. Gabrielle Hogan-Brun: Linguanomics: What is the Market Potential of Multilingualism?, Language Policy, vol. 17, p. 641–643, (2018).

  3. Review of Cornelia Streidt “Les langues au Parlement européen : L’usage des langues officielles par les eurodéputés”, Sociolinguistica, vol. 24, p. 231-235, (2010).

  4. Review of Dell’Aquila, Vittorio and Iannàccaro, Gabriele, "La pianificazione linguistica. Lingue, società e istituzioni", Language Problems & Language Planning, vol. 32, n. 2, p. 201-206, (2007).

  5. Review of Gardt, Andreas and Hüppauf, Bernd (eds.) “Globalization and the Future of German”, Language and Education, vol. 20, n. 2, p. 165-166, (2006).

 
 Working papers

  1. Language policy and linguistic justice in the European Union: the socio-economic effects of multilingualism. ELF Working Paper No. 15, Observatory “Economics-Languages-Training”, University of Geneva (2014).

  2. Efficiency and fairness in multilingual communication (with François Grin), DYLAN Working Paper No. 6, (2011).

  3. Criteria-based comparison in language policy: principles and methodology (with François Grin), DYLAN Working Paper No. 5, (2010).

  4. Multilingualism, efficiency and fairness: preliminary considerations regarding the role of creativity in a set of structural relationships (with François Grin), DYLAN Working Paper No. 4, (2009).

  5. Efficiency and Fairness. Deliverable No. 3 (with François Grin) DYLAN Working Paper No. 3, (2009).

  6. Efficiency and Fairness. Deliverable No. 2 (with François Grin) DYLAN Working Paper No. 2, (2008).

  7. Efficiency and Fairness. Deliverable No. 1” (with François Grin) DYLAN Working Paper No. 1, (2007).

Dissertations

  1. The economic evaluation of efficiency and fairness in the management of multilingual communication: The case of patent offices, PhD thesis, University of Geneva, Switzerland, (2011).

  2. The welfare economics of language planning and the evaluation of language policies, MSc Dissertation, University of York, UK, (2006).

  3. La relazione fra i costi economici e i costi politici del multilinguismo nell'Unione europea, BA dissertation, Università “L. Bocconi”, Milan, Italy, (2003).

Other publications (newspapers, magazines, web-magazines, etc.) 

  1. Can the free market manage language diversity? (with Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin), in Grin, François, Manuel Célio Conceição, Peter A. Kraus, László Marácz, Žaneta Ozoliņa, Nike K. Pokorn, and Anthony Pym (eds.). The MIME vademecum: Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe, p. 34-35. Geneva: The MIME Project.

  2. How does foreign language teaching influence the costs of migration?” (with Bengt-Arne Wick-ström and Torsten Templin), in Grin, François, Manuel Célio Conceição, Peter A. Kraus, László Marácz, Žaneta Ozoliņa, Nike K. Pokorn, and Anthony Pym (eds.). The MIME vademecum: Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe, p. 44-45. Geneva: The MIME Project.

  3. Do costs matter in language policy?” (with Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin), in Grin, François, Manuel Célio Conceição, Peter A. Kraus, László Marácz, Žaneta Ozoliņa, Nike K. Pokorn, and Anthony Pym (eds.). The MIME vademecum: Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe, p. 50-51. Geneva: The MIME Project.

  4. Should the government slow down the decine of minority communities? (with Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin), in Grin, François, Manuel Célio Conceição, Peter A. Kraus, László Marácz, Žaneta Ozoliņa, Nike K. Pokorn, and Anthony Pym (eds.). The MIME vademecum: Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe, p. 58-59. Geneva: The MIME Project.

  5. How important is demolinguistic concentration for the survival of minority languages in a world of increasing mobility” (with Bengt-Arne Wickström and Torsten Templin), in Grin, François, Manuel Célio Conceição, Peter A. Kraus, László Marácz, Žaneta Ozoliņa, Nike K. Pokorn, and Anthony Pym (eds.). The MIME vademecum: Mobility and inclusion in multilingual Europe, p. 64-65. Geneva: The MIME Project.

  6. Why teaching in English may not be such a good idea, The Times Higher Education, 27 November 2017.

  7. Per un’internazionalizzazione realmente plurilingue delle Università, Accademia della Crusca, 22 March 2017.

  8. Kial lingva politiko gravas por justeco kaj demokratio? (Why does language policy matter for justice and democracy?), in Košecký, Stanislav (ed.), Prilingve en Nitro: politike, historie, teorie, instrue. Fakaj prelegoj prezentitaj kadre de la 101-a Universala Kongreso de Esperanto. Rotterdam: Universala Esperanto-Asocio, p. 49-50 (2016).

  9. Internazionalizzazione dell'università e giustizia linguistica, L’esperanto, vol. 93, n. 2, 2016, p. 27-29.

  10. A 'one-language' policy would foster elitism and his disproportionately the least advantaged, Democratic Audit UK and European Politics and Policy, 20 August 2016.

  11. Runder Tisch zur Sprachgerechtigkeit an Universitäten, Interlinguistische Informationen, Mitteilungsblatt des Gesellschaft für Interlingvistik e.V., Nr. 98 (1, 2016), p. 2.

  12. Ökonomie, sprachliche Gerechtigkeit und Sprachpolitik, Interlinguistische Informationen, Mitteilungsblatt des Gesellschaft für Interlingvistik e.V., Nr. 94-95 (1-2, 2015), p. 2-5.

  13. Erster Weltkongress über Sprachenrechte (with Davide Astorie and Federico Gobbo), Interlinguistische Informationen, Mitteilungsblatt des Gesellschaft für Interlingvistik e.V., Nr. 96-97 (3-4, 2015), p. 4-5.

  14. Il falso mito dell'inglese: né democratico, né redditizio, Corriere della Sera, supplement "La Lettura", Sunday 30 November 2014, p. 5.

  15. Multilingualism and social justice in Europe, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting Blog, August 2014.

  16. Effetti linguistici della valutazione della ricerca, Scienza in rete, 2 November 2012.

  17. Nell’Europa dei diritti non c’è giustizia per gli idiomi, Madrelingua (supplement of “Pagine della Dante”), n. 1, year 2, January-March 2012, p. 3.

  18. La lingua del brevetto nell’Unione Europea. Una questione di costi e giustizia distributiva, Il Giornale dell’Ingegnere, N. 6 - 15 March 2011, p. 3.

  19. Nitobe – per la giustizia e la democrazia linguistica, L’esperanto, vol. 88, n. 2, March/April 2011, p. 9-10.

  20. La polemica delle lingue in Europa. Meglio una politica plurilingue, Libertiamo.it, 1 May 2010.

  21. Università e inglese, L’esperanto, vol. 39, n. 7, January/February 2008, p. 3.

  22. Le français : quelle importance dans l’économie mondiale?, (with François Grin) Forces, vol. 40, n. 152, p. 18-20, (2008).

  23. Too much English spoken in Europe?, Cafébabel, 25 September 2008 [available also in Italian, French, German, Polish and Spanish].

  24. L'Italiano, lingua tassata ed estromessa dall'università, Cronaca d'Abruzzo, 27 December 2007.

  25. Che cos’è una lingua franca?, L’esperanto, vol. 37, n. 2, March/April 2006, p. 3-4.

  26. Osservazioni sulla politica linguistica in Italia, L’esperanto, vol. 37, n. 1, January/February 2006. p. 3-4.

  27. Quello che gli esperantisti non dicono, L’esperanto, vol. 36, n. 6, September 2005, p. 3-4.

  28. Multilingualism in the European Union and its costs, in Multilinguismo? Sì grazie!, Webpages of the European Commission, Representation in Milan [also in Italian], 2003.

  29. L'esperanto e i suoi veri paladini, L’esperanto, vol. 33, n. 1, January 2002, p. 13.

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