Social Network Analysis

The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 263-274

  Daming, Xu ^a   Xiaomei, Wang ^b   Wei, Li ^c  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ANOVA and ethnic index of exchange networks predictor for individual's language choice patterns; Approaches to social networks; SNA and bilingual acquisition; SNA in bilingualism and multilingualism research; SNA in Language Research; Social network web like pattern of relationships among individuals; Social network analysis; Structural patterns of different kinds of social networks; Whole network approach and using social networks to define social differentiation of language

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865152783     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444301120.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

References (8)

1. Brandes, Ulrik and Thomas Erlebach (eds.) (2005) Network Analysis: Methodological Foundations. Berlin and Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag.
2. Carrington, Peter J., John Scott, and Stanley Wasserman (eds.) (2005) Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis. New York: Cambridge University Press.
3. Cochran, Moncrieff, Mary Larner, David D. Riley, and Lars Gunnarsson (1990) Extending Families: The Social Networks of Parents and Their Children. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
4. Scott, John (2000) Social Network Analysis: A Handbook. 2nd edn. London: Sage.
5. The International Network for Social Network Analysis is the professional association for social network analysis.
6. Netwiki is a scientific wiki devoted to network theory, which uses tools from subjects such as graph theory, statistical mechanics, and dynamic systems to study real-world networks in the social sciences, technology, biology, etc.
7. Many social network tools for scholarly work are available on-line, such as the longtime standard UCINet, Pajek, or the "network" package in "R." They are relatively easy to use to present graphical images of networks. An open-source package for Linux is Social Networks Visualizer or SocNetV; a related package installer of SocNetV for Mac OS X is available.
8. Up-to-date research can be found in the journals Social Networks, Connections, and the Journal of Social Structure.