… 1970 and brought to the studies on linguistic variation and change in order to “explain the …
linguistic change over the course of time”. Evans (2004)EVANS, B. The role of social network …

… look at the social environment, I will in this paper focus on the individuals and their placement
within a net of influential contacts, their social networks. A social network has been defined …

… They argue that the high level of resistance against linguistic change in the studied
community is a result of strong and multiplex ties between the actors. Their approach has been …

… The linguistic variables This section provides a short description of the linguistic changes
under … that close-knit and multiplex social networks are resistant to linguistic change, while …

… We examine situations in which linguistic changes have … all linguistic variation is the result
of either diffusion or independent innovation, and, second, that we may operationalize social …

… It is known, for example, that densely connected social networks tend to be resistant to …
A complementary understanding of leaders of linguistic change emerges when society is …

… collected from a Belgian online social network platform. The present study shows that
combining quantitative and qualitative approaches is essential for understanding non-standard …

… This paper deals with linguistic changes and communication structure influenced by social
networks. … This paper will describe linguistic changes in communication, ie changes in the …

… social networks, dialects, and languages. The problem of establishing these relations is
severe, and no method has emerged that is completely satisfying or convincing. To see why this …