Language variation and change in social networks

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.

• Chapter 1 Previous approaches to network analysis in sociolinguistics 1.1 Guiding principles and their realization in previous studies 1.2 Assessing previous studies and looking forward Chapter 2 Raleigh, the corpus, and the retreat from the Southern Vowel Shift 2.1 Raleigh: A brief demographic and economic history 2.2 Dialect mixing and leveling 2.3 The Raleigh corpus 2.4 An industrial approach to occupation in Raleigh 2.5 Assessing dialect shift across three generations Chapter 3 Bipartite networks and complex social systems 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Bipartite networks: A formal introduction 3.3 Adapting network methods for bipartite networks 3.4 Bipartite network applications 3.5 Bipartite school co-attendance networks in Raleigh 3.6 The Raleigh network data 3.7 Structural cohesion Chapter 4 Structural equivalence 4.1 Motivation for using structural equivalence in the Raleigh study 4.2 Hypotheses: Network, occupation, and language change 4.3 Calculating structural equivalence 4.4 Testing the hypotheses: QAP regression 4.5 Results 4.6 Discussion Chapter 5Community detection 5.1 Community detection in social networks 5.2 QuanBiMo 5.3 Community detection in the Raleigh network 5.4 Modules in the Raleigh network 5.5 Assessing linguistic variation across modules 5.6 Results 5.7 Conclusions Chapter 6Conclusions 6.1 Summary of findings about language and social network position in Raleigh 6.2 Looking forward: Social meaning, social structure, and types of linguistic variables References