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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
Social network and social class: Toward an integrated sociolinguistic model
Contributor:
Milroy, Lesley;
Milroy, James
imprint:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1992
Published in:Language in Society
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1017/s0047404500015013
ISSN:
0047-4045;
1469-8013
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<jats:title>ABSTRACT</jats:title><jats:p>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 connection between these variables and suggest the outlines of a model that can integrate them in a coherent way. This depends on linking a consensus-based microlevel of network with a conflict-based macrolevel of social class. We suggest interpretations of certain sociolinguistic findings, citing detailed evidence from research in Northern Ireland and Philadelphia, which emphasize the need for acknowledging the importance of looseknit network ties in facilitating linguistic innovations. We then propose that the link between network and class can be made<jats:italic>via</jats:italic>the notion of<jats:italic>weak</jats:italic>network ties using the process-based model of the macrolevel suggested by Thomas Højrup's theory of life-modes. (Sociolinguistics, sociology, quantitative social dialectology, anthropological linguistics)</jats:p>