The Monasteries of the Benedictine Reform and the ‘Winchester School’: Model Cases of Social Networks in Anglo-Saxon England?

Lenker, Ursula

doi:10.1076/1382-5577(200012)4:3;1-s;ft225

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“…This paper will argue, therefore, that temporary economic migrants in a foreign country are by definition people who have exchanged strong‐tie networks in their home countries for relatively loose social networks and increased opportunities elsewhere, and that the weak ties that exist in their temporary social networks produce conditions in which language change can take place more rapidly. Milroy's (2004) original work involved participant observation in a small community in Northern Ireland, and while there are imaginative historical applications of the theory (Bax 2000; Lenker 2000), and exercises in the computer modelling of social networks (Troutman, Clark and Goldrick 2008; Ke, Gong and Wang 2008), there are as yet no empirical studies of the nature of social network ties in major migrant destinations such as Dubai or Abu Dhabi.…”

Section: Social Network Theorymentioning

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Language contact in the United Arab Emirates

Boyle¹

2012

World Englishes

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The population of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) rose from 1.6 million in 1990 to 8.2 million in 2010, mainly as a result of immigration, and foreigners now constitute about 88 per cent of the population. English is the second or third language for many of the expatriates, and it is used as an acrolectal lingua franca. As these economic migrants are transient workers on short-term residence visas, most communicate through loose-knit social networks, and this produces conditions favourable to language change. As a means of examining how English has established itself in the UAE and of describing the changes that are beginning to take place in the language, this paper will apply Schneider's 'dynamic model' of postcolonial Englishes to the history of the country from 1820 until the present day. It will argue that the 'nativization' phase is just beginning in the UAE and that the lexicogrammatical changes which are appearing are characteristic of this phase.

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Section: Social Network Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Language contact in the United Arab Emirates

Boyle¹

2012

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“…In other words, mobility meant less integration into a local place and therefore reduced use of local forms. The use of network structures to explain language variation and change was adopted in numerous studies (to name a few, Bortoni-Ricardo 1985; Lippi-Green 1992; Lenker 2000; Watt 2002) and has subsequently been developed, discussed, and also criticized (e.g. Murray 1993; Türker 1995).…”

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Place attachment and linguistic variation: A quantitative analysis of language and local attachment in a rural village and an urban social housing area

2020

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This article presents the results of a quantitative analysis of language variation and place attachment in two different places in Denmark—a rural, mono-ethnic village where traditional dialect is still used in everyday practices, and a multiethnic suburban social housing district where speakers use features associated with regional dialect and multiethnic youth styles. It is argued that variationist sociolinguistics, dialect research, as well as sociolinguistics that foregrounds situated interaction analysis need to develop methodologies that include and combine information about speakers’ individual mobility histories, local practices, and future orientations in relation to language use and place. For this purpose, this study employs a quantified measure, an index of local attachment, of speakers’ attachment to their local area. The index is calculated on the basis of insights from ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, and is compared to the variation of three linguistic variables in each location. Results show differences between the two places, the rural and the urban communities, as well as between individuals that can be explained by differences in place affordances, life histories, and future orientation. (Place, local attachment, mobility, dialect, multiethnic speech style, quantitative analysis)*

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“…. ., of manuscript art and, linguistically, of the “Winchester Vocabulary”’ (Lenker 2000: 237). These norms both emerge in and later on are maintained by the tight structures and links within the Winchester network, supported by its institutions and hierarchies.…”

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Aelfred mec heht gewyrcan: sociolinguistic concepts in the study of Alfredian English

Timofeeva¹

2017

English Language and Linguistics

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This study reconstructs the Alfredian network as consisting of twelve actors. This network is termed acoalition, within which a cluster of Mercian actors is further hypothesised. Historical sources and charter evidence suggest that Mercian scribes worked for West Saxon kings and may even have taken part in the establishment of a proto-chancery at the royal court. This writing office can be conjectured to have ties with the Alfredian coalition and described as acommunity of practice. The whole sociolinguistic reconstruction is supported by three case studies:Angelcynn‘the English people’ andhere‘band, troop’ in historical-political genres, andgretan freondlicein epistolary genres. The diffusion of these Alfredian norms across time, place and genres is linked to the royal chancery and its distribution channels, as well as to the diachronic sustainability of linguistic practices within professional discourse communities and their archives.

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The Monasteries of the Benedictine Reform and the ‘Winchester School’: Model Cases of Social Networks in Anglo-Saxon England?

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Language contact in the United Arab Emirates

Language contact in the United Arab Emirates

Place attachment and linguistic variation: A quantitative analysis of language and local attachment in a rural village and an urban social housing area

Aelfred mec heht gewyrcan: sociolinguistic concepts in the study of Alfredian English

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