Robin Dodsworth, Richard A. Benton

Language variation and change in social networks (eBook, PDF)

A bipartite approach

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Produktbeschreibung

This monograph takes up recent advances in social network methods in sociology, together with data on economic segregation, in order to build a quantitative analysis of the class and network effects implicated in vowel change in a Southern American city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. August 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317281719
• Artikelnr.: 57541965

Autorenporträt

Robin Dodsworth is Associate Professor of English in the Linguistics program at North Carolina State University, USA.

Richard Benton is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Previous approaches to network analysis in sociolinguistics 1.1
Guiding principles and their realization in previous studies 1.2 Assessing
previous studies and looking forward Chapter 2 Raleigh, the corpus, and the
retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift 2.1 Raleigh: A brief demographic and
economic history 2.2 Dialect mixing and leveling 2.3 The Raleigh corpus 2.4
An industrial approach to occupation in Raleigh 2.5 Assessing dialect shift
across three generations Chapter 3 Bipartite networks and complex social
systems 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Bipartite networks: A formal introduction 3.3
Adapting network methods for bipartite networks 3.4 Bipartite network
applications 3.5 Bipartite school co-attendance networks in Raleigh 3.6 The
Raleigh network data 3.7 Structural cohesion Chapter 4 Structural
equivalence 4.1 Motivation for using structural equivalence in the Raleigh
study 4.2 Hypotheses: Network, occupation, and language change 4.3
Calculating structural equivalence 4.4 Testing the hypotheses: QAP
regression 4.5 Results 4.6 Discussion Chapter 5Community detection 5.1
Community detection in social networks 5.2 QuanBiMo 5.3 Community detection
in the Raleigh network 5.4 Modules in the Raleigh network 5.5 Assessing
linguistic variation across modules 5.6 Results 5.7 Conclusions Chapter
6Conclusions 6.1 Summary of findings about language and social network
position in Raleigh 6.2 Looking forward: Social meaning, social structure,
and types of linguistic variables References