English Explanatory Dictionary

Q-value

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A measure of the communicative utility of a human language, computed as the product of the language's centrality and its prevalence.

Word forms

Q-value Q-values

Etymology

From communication value; coined by Dutch sociologist Abram de Swaan.

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