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Network & Repertoire: Myla Barcenabiete Maria April Quincey Apolinar

This document discusses networks and repertoires. It defines networks as the interactions between an individual and others in society, including how frequently they interact and with how many mutual connections. Networks can be dense, where connections know each other, or loose. Networks can also be multiplex, with connections in multiple contexts like work and social activities. A speech repertoire refers to the range of language varieties a speaker can use appropriately within their communities. Repertoires are unique to individuals and help define communities.

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Network & Repertoire: Myla Barcenabiete Maria April Quincey Apolinar

This document discusses networks and repertoires. It defines networks as the interactions between an individual and others in society, including how frequently they interact and with how many mutual connections. Networks can be dense, where connections know each other, or loose. Networks can also be multiplex, with connections in multiple contexts like work and social activities. A speech repertoire refers to the range of language varieties a speaker can use appropriately within their communities. Repertoires are unique to individuals and help define communities.

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NET WORK &

REPERTOIRE
MYLA BARCENA BIETE
MARIA APRIL QUINCEY APOLINAR
NETWORKS

• Another way of viewing how an individual relates to other individuals in society


is to ask what networks he or she participates in.
That is, how and on what occasions does a specific individual A interact now
with B, then with C, and then again with D? How intensive are the various
relationships: does A interact more frequently with B than with C or D? How
extensive is A’s relationship with B in the sense of how many other individuals
interact with both A and B in whatever activity brings them together?
A A

E B E B

1. 2.
D C D C

A A

E B
D B

3. 4.
D C E

SIMPLE NETWORKS RELATIONSHIPS


• You are said to be involved in a dense network if the people you know and
interact with, also know and interact with one another.
• If they do not the network is a loose one.
• You are also said to be involved in a multiplex network if the people within it
are tied together in more than one way, i.e., not just through work but also
through other social activities.
• Milroy and Gordon also point out that the ‘concepts of network and
community of practice are closely related, and the differences between them are
chiefly method and focus.
• Network analysis typically deals with structural and content properties of the
ties that constitute egocentric personal networks but cannot address the issues
of how and where linguistic variants are employed to construct local social
meanings. Rather, it is concerned with how informal social groups support local
norms or facilitate linguistic change.’
• It is quite apparent that no two individuals are exactly alike in their linguistic
capabilities, just as no two social situations are exactly alike.
A SPEECH REPERTOIRE
• that is, he or she controls several varieties of a language or of two or more
languages.
• ‘A speech repertoire is the range of linguistic varieties which the speaker has
at his disposal and which he may appropriately use as a member of his speech
community.’
• The concept of ‘speech repertoire’ may be most useful when applied to
individuals rather than to groups. We can use it to describe the communicative
competence of individual speakers.
• Everyone has his or her own distinctive verbal repertoire and each speech
community in which that person participates has its distinctive speech
repertoire; in fact, one could argue that this repertoire is its defining feature.
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