The speakers' profile from the viewpoint of their social networks and their association with linguistic change

• Published in: Alfa 2018-09, Vol.62 (3), p.483-507
• Main Author: Oliveira, Eliane Vitorino de Moura
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Adolescent language; Adolescents; Clases sociales; Language change; Linguistics; Redes sociales; Social classes; Social network analysis; Social networks; Sociolinguistics; Sociolingüística; Software; Speech; Teenagers
• ISSN: 0002-5216; 1981-5794
• DOI: 10.1590/1981-5794-1811-3

This paper shows, through the maps of the speech of teenagers coming from a rural district in Londrina, state of Paraná, the social network analysis as an analytic method appropriate to the recognizing of their sociolinguistics reality, since it acts as an efficient way of obtaining answers, otherwise unobtainable by the standard variables (sex, age, social class, schooling). Using the Egonet, a software whose function is to quantify the personal interaction through the identification of connections and points in the egocentric networks, we show the individual maps of the informant's networks as an appropriate model for recognizing the individual linguistics references. From the Sociolinguistics view, especially in the second-wave linguistics, having as a theoretical framework Leslie Milroy (1987 [1980]), Bortoni-Ricardo (2005, 2009, 2011 [1985], 2014), Coelho et al. (2015) and others, the discussions, with emphasis on the result, certify the work with the ARS as a relevant instrument for the language studies in general and for the understanding of linguistic variation and change.