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Bridging people and perspectives: General and language-specific social network structure predict mentalizing across diverse sociolinguistic contexts.

Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology / Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale, 2022
Mentalizing, or reasoning about others' mental states, is a dynamic social cognitive process that aids in communication and navigating complex social interactions. We examined whether exposure to diverse perspectives, afforded by occupying influential social network positions, predicted bilingual adults' performances on a behavioral mentalizing rating ...
Mehrgol Tiv, Ethan Kutlu, Elisabeth O'Regan, Debra Titone   +3 more
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Social Network Approach in African Sociolinguistics

2017
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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Language and interaction: applying sociolinguistics to social network analysis

Quality & Quantity, 2018
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 ...
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Ethics and social media: Implications for sociolinguistics in the networked public¹

Journal of Sociolinguistics, 2012
As a popular agora for writing identity into being, the networked public of social media sites presents exciting and unprecedented possibilities for sociolinguistic research. At the same time, these sites raise a wealth of unfamiliar methodological and ethical issues, and debate concerning appropriate ethical measures for research targeting online ...
Alexandra D’Arcy, Taylor Marie Young
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At the Intersection of SLA and Sociolinguistics: The Predictive Power of Social Networks During Study Abroad

The Modern Language Journal, 2022
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.
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The social architecture of communicative competence: a methodology for social-network research in sociolinguistics

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2002
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.
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Best Grad Competition: Engagement, Social Networks, and the Sociolinguistic Performance of Quebec French Learners

The Canadian Modern Language Review, 2020
Le degré d’implication personnelle et les réseaux sociaux de soutien semblent favoriser le développement sociolinguistique de la langue seconde. L’auteure étudie la relation entre ces deux idées et leur influence sur l’utilisation par les apprenants du français québécois de deux particularités informelles, soit la suppression du ne et le on de ...
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सामाजिक सञ्जालमा प्रस्तुत स्टाटसको समाजभाषिक दृष्टिले विश्लेषण {A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Status Presented on Social Networks}

CHINTAN-DHARA, 2023
बढ्दो विज्ञानको प्रभाव र समाजमा सञ्चारको पहँुचका कारण आजभोलि सबैको हात हातमा सामान्य बनेको छ । मोवाइल फोनको कारणले साक्षर निरक्षर, धनी गरिब, उच्च निम्न, ठूला साना, सबैका लागि सामाजिक सञ्जाल समय कटाउने, सूचना लिने दिने र आफ्ना मनको बह पोख्ने थलो बनेको छ । राजनैतिक व्यक्तिदेखि उच्च पदस्त सबैले कुनै न कुनै सामाजिक सञ्जालको प्रयोग गरिरहेका हुन्छन् । सामाज ...
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Social networks from a sociolinguistic perspective: the relationship between characteristics of the social networks of bilingual adolescents and their language proficiency

International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 2002
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.
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Social media networks and the discourse of resistance: A sociolinguistic CDA of Biafra online discourses

Discourse & Society, 2012
This study focuses on how Social Media Networks (SMN) have been used in recent times to champion social protests and resistance against oppression and political power abuse. Hence, ‘discourse of resistance’ takes a cue from the current waves of resistance and political revolutions in North Africa and the Arab world, which have been largely attributed ...
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