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Language variation and change in social networks - A bipartite approach (Paperback)
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Language variation and change in social networks - A bipartite approach (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Language Change
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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. Studies of
sociolinguistic variation in urban spaces have uncovered durable
patterns of linguistic difference, such as the maintenance of blue
collar/white collar distinctions in the case of stable linguistic
variables. But the underlying interactional origins of these
patterns, and the interactional reasons for their durability, are
not well understood, due in part to the near-absence of large-scale
network investigation. This book undertakes a sociolinguistic
network analysis of data from the Raleigh corpus, a set of
conversational interviews collected form natives of Raleigh, North
Carolina, from 2008-2017. Acoustic analysis of the corpus shows the
rapid, ongoing retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift and increasing
participation in national vowel changes. The social distribution of
these trends is explored via standard social factors such as
occupation as well as innovative network variables, including a
measure of nestedness in the community network. The book aims to
pursue new network-based questions about sociolinguistic variation
that can be applied to other corpora, making this key reading for
students and researchers in sociolinguistics and historical
linguistics as well as those interested in further understanding
how existing quantitative network methods from sociological
research might be applied to sociolinguistic data.
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