Title Language variation and change in social networks : a bipartite approach / Robin Dodsworth and Richard Benton

Published New York, NY : Routledge, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (x, 194 pages) Series Routledge studies in language change ; 2 Routledge studies in language change. Contents 1. Previous approaches to network analysis in sociolinguistics -- 2. Raleigh, the corpus, and the retreat from the southern vowel shift -- 3. Bipartite networks and complex social systems -- 4. Structural equivalence -- 5. Community detection -- 6. Conclusions -- References Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Robin Dodsworth is Associate Professor of English in the Linguistics program at North Carolina StateUniversity, USA. Richard Benton is Assistant Professor of Sociology at The University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA Subject English language -- Dialects -- North Carolina -- Raleigh English language -- North Carolina -- Raleigh -- Accents and accentuation English language -- United States -- Accents and accentuation English language -- Spoken English -- United States English language -- North Carolina -- Raleigh -- Phonology English language -- United States -- Phonology Sociolinguistics -- North Carolina -- Raleigh LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics. English language -- Accents and accentuation English language -- Dialects English language -- Phonology English language -- Spoken English Sociolinguistics North Carolina -- Raleigh United States Form Electronic book Author Benton, Richard, author. ISBN 9781315642000 131564200X 9781317281702 1317281705 9781317281696 1317281691 9781317281719 1317281713

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