Tentative Order of Handbook Chapters
**please note: ÒxÓ indicates no ordering can be indicated until
all chapter ideas have been submitted**
Introduction --Alicia Wassink
Chapter x--(Andy): personality types vs. positional types in
social network analysis
- contrast Network Position with Labov's concept of personality
type as a more powerful model for explaining language innovation and the spread
of language change
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speaker-innovator
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early adopter
- role of outliers, bridges and other actors on the periphery of
cliques and groups in terms of the social role they play.
- With support from the literature I will attempt to show the
importance of social roles in terms of the actor's position in the social
network and how that is independent of the identity of the actor who fills that
role
Chapter x--(Rachel):gender as an understudied variable in
sociolinguistic network studies
- review of literature that studies networks, but leaves out
gender/gendered ties
- gender in adolescent networks (Cheshire's limitations)
- gender in gender role-segregated communities (the limitations of
the integration index of Bortoni-Ricardo)
- proposal: treatment of gender in social network strength scales
Chapter x--(Meghan): modeling of attitudes in social network studies
- how have subjective evaluations been represented in social
network analysis
- how do we derive useful strategies for representing attitudes in
linguistic studies?
Chapter X--(Luis):
Chapter X--(Jamie):