Community

Question 1

Community

Answer 1

Uniformity in style-shifting behaviour

Question 2

Milroy (1980,87) Belfast
[a] local
[e:] prestige

Answer 2

Ballymacarrat & Hammer - men had stronger network ties and user more vernacular
Clanard - women had stronger network ties and used more vernacular

Close knit communities/strong network ties reinforce norms

Question 3

Social network

Answer 3

Number of connections

Question 4

Community of practice (Meyerhoff)

Answer 4

• mutual engagement
• shared repertoire
• working towards a shared goal

Question 5

Community of practice is better explanation that social class

Answer 5

Eckert (2000)

Question 6

Density (Holmes)

Answer 6

Whether network members are connected

Question 7

Plexity (Holmes)

Answer 7

Number of ways in which members are connected

Question 8

Martha’s Vineyard, Labov (1961)

Answer 8

Lowest rate of diphthong centralisation amongst speakers with a negative attitude towards island

Question 9

Oberwant (Holmes)

Answer 9

Farm workers prefer Hungarian

Industry workers prefer German

Question 10

Dense networks - Milroy, Belfast (1987)

Answer 10

Slow or inhibit language change

Question 11

Jenny Cheshire (1982) - Reading: non-standard forms, -s present tense agreement

Answer 11

Core members almost always used non-standard forms

Peripheral members used the least

Question 12

Non-standard burnout feature

Answer 12

Negative concord

Question 13

Cheshire (1982) occurrences of class a features

Answer 13

Occurred less in school context

Question 14

Trudgill Norwich (1974) [in] used most:

Answer 14

Men
Lowest social class
Casual speech