Ch. 2-B Puzzle: Terms for Looking at Society

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Across
  1. 3. People who participate in multiple communities of practice and bring ideas from one into the other, that is, people who introduce innovations to their social networks.
  2. 5. A common sense aid or guideline for how to frame a research problem, in this case by working among three models of social groupings: speech community, social network, and CofP.
  3. 8. A distinctly bounded geographic area in which many residents share an ethnicity or other social characteristic. For instance, Miami is considered a Cuban one.
  4. 10. (CofP) Unit of analysis, introduced to sociolinguistics by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet in their work on language and gender, that looks at a smaller analytical domain than social networks. This social grouping is characterized by mutual engagement, a jointly negotiated enterprise, and a shared repertoire; for example, Eckert’s work on jocks and burnouts.
  5. 11. The different groups of people that each of us has interacted with over the years. Each of us participates in multiple ones; some are connected through the members they share, and some of these connections are stronger than others. See also dense, multiplex.
Down
  1. 1. A group of people who are in habitual contact with one another, who share a language variety and social conventions, or sociolinguistic norms, about language use.
  2. 2. A term used to describe the number of connections within a social network. In social networks that are low, people know a central member but not each other. In ones that are high, members know and interact with each other.
  3. 4. A combination of expressed attitudes and variable linguistic behavior shared by all members of a speech community.
  4. 6. A branch of anthropology that deals with the scientific description of individual cultures.
  5. 7. A term used to describe social networks in which members have multiple connections with one another. The opposite of a uniplex network.
  6. 9. The ability of speakers to control what they say and to make conscious choices about it because they want to project a particular persona. Often associated with CofP.