Publisher Summary This chapter focuses on linguistic norm, specifically a nonstandard or
vernacular norm, as opposed to a fully codified standard norm. Belfast is a city of relatively …

An individual's social network is straightforwardly the aggregate of relationships contracted
with others, and social network analysis examines the differing structures and properties of …

This special issue of EJES is devoted to seven sociohistorical accounts of language
variation and change. All these articles focus on applications of social network analysis of …

Abstract [T] he Belfast research design here depends on the idea of norm maintenance,
which we have operationalized in terms of social network, and within this model we have …

SOCIOLINGUISTS HAVE PROPOSED" NETWORK" as an explanation of var production of
linguistic data at levels ranging from phonology to choice of a language in an interaction …

'The forces operating to produce linguistic change today are of the same kind and order of
magnitude as those which operated in the past five or ten thousand years'. 1 This claim …

Many of those recent urban sociolinguistic studies which follow the general model provided
by Labov (1966) have tried to account for patterns of variability in language and have …

In sociolinguistics, approaches that use the variables of socioeconomic class and social
network have often been thought to be irreconcilable. In this article, we explore the …

The role of social networks in language variation has been studied using a wide range of
metrics. This study critically examines the effect of different dimensions of networks on …

The fact that linguistic variation is correlated with a wide range of sociological characteristics
of speakers has been extensively documented over the last 15 years by the many studies …