Publications

Publication details [#12456]

Milroy, James and Lesley Milroy. 1997. Network Structure and Linguistic Change. In Coupland, Nikolas and Adam Jaworski. Sociolinguistics: A Reader and Coursebook. (Modern Linguistics Series). MacMillan. pp. 199–211.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

social class | social network | sociolinguistics | variability

Language as a subject

English, Belfast

Annotation

Differences in network density within working-class urban groups are shown to correlate with linguistic change and stability.