The Strenght of Weak Ties. How Linguistic Change Happens in Social Networks

Seminar paper from the year 2011 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2.3, University of Cologne, language: English, abstract: The following pages will take a deeper look on the Social Network Theory as part of the sociolinguistics. It will further be discussed, to what extend social networks are bound to concepts of social class. Since the Social Network Th...