Linguistic capital concerns communicative resources recognized as valuable within a particular market. Correctness alone does not determine their return. The concept helps distinguish skill development from changes to institutional standards that privilege some speakers, especially when improving vocabulary leaves unequal credibility intact.
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Related entries name an idea, effect or practice that belongs to a model or tool of the series. They are not models or tools themselves and are not counted as such; each one leads to the model or tool it comes from, and to its Executive Insight Brief.
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Theories & Explanatory Models
Explains how or why a communication process works by relating mechanisms, conditions or variables. Its value is an account that can guide inquiry into what produces an outcome, rather than a name for the outcome alone.