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Language and interaction: applying sociolinguistics to social network analysis [PDF]
In recent years social network analysis, influenced by relational sociology, has taken a cultural turn. One result has been a growing interest in the cultural, and not just structural, aspects of social networks. And yet, while relational literature conceptualizes network ties as being interactionally constructed through cultural processes ...
David Diehl
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The present analysis examines the data and method for investigating the social structure of communicative competence. Specifically, the article details a case-study methodology for exploring social-support network effects on communicative competence.
L. Ripley Smith
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Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model
ABSTRACTIn sociolinguistics, approaches that use the variables of socioeconomic class and social network have often been thought to be irreconcilable. In this article, we explore the connection between these variables and suggest the outlines of a model that can integrate them in a coherent way.
Lesley Milroy, James Milroy
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Social Network Approach in African Sociolinguistics
The Social Network Analysis approach (SNA), also known as sociometrics or actor-network analysis, investigates social structure on the basis of empirically recorded social ties between actors. It thereby aims to explain e.g. the processes of flow of information, spreading of innovations, or even pathogens throughout the network by actor roles and their
Klaus Beyer, Henning Schreiber
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The aim of the study is to delineate the social networks of immigrant students at secondary upper-school level (Swedish gymnasium) in order to see to what extent the social networks are (1) oriented toward the own immigrant group, (2) oriented toward Swedes, and (3) oriented toward immigrant groups other than the own group.
Ingrid Wiklund
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AbstractThis longitudinal study of 17 American learners of French lies at the intersection of 2 complementary fields of inquiry in second language acquisition (SLA): language variation and change (LVC) and language acquisition during study abroad.
Kristen Kennedy Terry
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Alexander Bergs, Social networks and historical sociolinguistics: Studies in morphosyntactic variation in the Paston letters (1421–1503). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2005. Pp. xii, 318. Hb $123.20. Dedicated to morphosyntactic variation in the late Middle English Paston letters, this book comprises seven chapters, notes, and author and subject ...
Anastassia Zabrodskaja
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Language acquisition and sociolinguistic variation: the social, the cognitive, and the network
Bringing cognitive and social approaches under the same focus is becoming a desirable goal should one want to gain a better understanding of the process of language acquisition (Hulstijn et al., 2014, Chevrot & Nardy, to appear). Three ways for combining the social and the cognitive can be envisaged: the social approach to cognition, the cognitive ...
Chevrot, Jean-Pierre+4 more
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Names On Social Network Sites: Facebook In Particular From A Sociolinguistic Perspective
Najet Ahmed Busabaa
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