Language Change and Sociolinguistics: Rethinking Social Networks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781403914873)

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.

Author: Jonathan Marshall
ISBN-10: 1403914877
ISBN-13: 9781403914873
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 03/31/2004
Pages: 246
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.92h x 5.40w x 0.76d