What Is a Language Community

By David D. Laitin. 2000

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Subfields: Demography, Sociology and Political Science

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On the Theory of Ethnic Conflict (2006, unknown): “…( 1995 ) , who views ethnicity as a coordinating device to build coalitions ( while we view it as a device to enforce coalitions ) ; Fearon and Laitin ( 2000 ) , who stress the elites ' wilful provocation of conflict with other groups in or - der to solve within - group power struggles ;…”
Native language, spoken language, translation and trade (2014, unknown): “LP1 is inspired by the aforementioned idea in Fearon (2003) and Laitin (2000) of calculating linguistic proximities on the basis of the Ethnologue classification of language trees between trees, branches and sub-branches.”
Handbook of the Economics of the Art and Culture (2006, background): “Fearon and Latin (1999), Laitin (2000), and Fearon (2003) suggested calculating distances between the branches of linguistic trees as a proxy for distances between linguistic groups.6 In the original Fearon and Latin (1999) index (LANGFAM), for every pair of languages, the score takes the level of…”
The causal impact of common native language on international trade: Evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design: evidence from a spatial regression discontinuity design (2015, unknown): “3See Laitin (2000), Hauser et al. (2002), Fidrmuc and Ginsburgh (2007), Holman et al. (2007), Chiswick (2008), Matser et al. (2010), and Falck et al. (2012) for recent important contributions on the matter in political science, sociology, socio-linguistics, economics, and psychology.”
Ethnic and Cultural Diversity by Country* (2003, background): “Fearon and Laitin (2000a) attempt to deal with this problem by examining the implicit rules that people (or at least English speakers) use to decide which groups are "ethnic" in everyday talk.”
A Generalized Index of Fractionalization (2011, methodology): “Using a heuristic approach, Laitin (2000) and Fearon (2003) rely on measures of distance between languages to assess how different linguistic groups are across countries.”