LING1109 - WEEK 3 (social network) notes

Question 1

social networks

Answer 1

members of a speech community are connected to each other in social networks which can be relatively ‘closed’ or ‘open’

Question 2

open networks

Answer 2

a network whose members do not know the other members of the network. Open networks are said to be of ‘low density’

Question 3

closed networks

Answer 3

networks of connections where ‘everyone knows everyone else’. Closed networks are said to be of ‘high density’.

Question 4

multiplex networks

Answer 4

where individuals are linked in several ways

Question 5

uniplex networks

Answer 5

individuals are connected through only one kind of business

Question 6

‘vernacular’

Answer 6

a mode of speaking in variation from what is considered to be the ‘standard’ language, i.e. the language that have evolved for the business of government, trade, education, etc.

Question 7

closed, dense, multiplex networks are

Answer 7

‘norm enforcing’, i.e. they reinforce the use of ‘vernacular speech (another term is ‘dialect’, which we explore in our module on language variation)’