The Evolution of Egalitarian Sociolinguistic Conventions

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Motivated by historical examples and ideas from socio-linguistics, in particular the "non-reciprocal power semantic" of Brown and Gilman (1960), we extend evolutionary models of language to incorporate intentional linguistic innovations among conventions that may convey social superiority and inferiority, despite being ambiguous, in the sense of less efficiency in communicating information. We show that egalitarian and unambiguous linguistic conventions can be stochastically stable but also identify conditions under which ambiguous linguistic conventions that are imperfect signals of status differences may be stochastically stable.
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AMER ECONOMIC ASSOC
Issue Date
2017-05
Language
English
Article Type
Article
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AMERICAN ECONOMIC REVIEW, v.107, no.5, pp.572 - 577

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0002-8282
DOI
10.1257/aer.p20171089
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http://hdl.handle.net/10203/224546
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