Language Change and Sociolinguistics - Rethinking Social Networks

Informationen zum Autor JONATHAN MARSHALL is Lecturer at the Department of English Language at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext This sociolinguistic study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the diffusion of language change within a community. Advanced statistical analysis methods are used in rigorously testing the supposed norm-enforcement effect of social networks. Revisions to the social network model are proposed, allowing the effects of various social factors operating simultaneously on the individual to be considered in evaluating the process of resistance to language change. Zusammenfassung This sociolinguistic study offers a new theoretical framework for understanding the diffusion of language change within a community. Advanced statistical analysis methods are used in rigorously testing the supposed norm-enforcement effect of social networks. Revisions to the social network model are proposed, allowing the effects of various social factors operating simultaneously on the individual to be considered in evaluating the process of resistance to language change. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword Introduction Theoretical Background and Previous Research The Research Design AGE Across the Individual Phonological Variables Testing for Correlations Across the Entire Database Statistical Testing Discussion Implications for Future Research Bibliography Appendices Index

Product details

• Authors: J. Marshall, Jonathan Marshall
• Publisher: Palgrave UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2004
• EAN: 9781403914873
• ISBN: 978-1-4039-1487-3
• No. of pages: 259
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Language Variation; Palgrave Studies in Language V; Palgrave Studies in Language Variation; Palgrave Studies in Language V
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; B, Soziolinguistik, Resistance, Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics, Comparative Linguistics, Palgrave Language & Linguistics Collection, Language Change, Linguistic change, Historical and comparative linguistics, Understanding