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J. MARSHALL
4 Do you work/go to school with at least two other locals of the same sex?
5 Do you spend time with work/school friends after work/school, or during weekends
and holidays?
6 Do you take part in a local group (organised or non organised) in the area? (religion,
scouts, guides, youth groups, DofE, sports, jobs, holiday activities, hunting, cards,
bridge).
7 Do you take part in leisure or sports activities with 2 or more locals or work/school
friends?
8 have your mother and father lived here all their lives?
The Doric SOCNET score is a network index score, or a combination of
interactional and structural criteria (mostly the former), which has been used
to test whether a high social network score will predict a high (conservative)
dialect index score. The range is zero (minimal network density and
multiplexity) to eight (maximal). The Doric index has limitations for
structural criteria, such as the following:
1) Size
2) Density
3) Centrality
4) Clustering
5) Network role of the speaker
It does, however, accurately measure the interactional criteria of the network,
and as such is similar to Milroy’s network strength index:
1) Number & frequency of interactions
2) Multiplexity
3) Strength
4) Content
The questionnaire was based closely on Milroy’s and Pedersen’s
questionnaires, and this makes the scores obtained comparable to theirs. A
more complex and structurally oriented measure could not have been achieved
without spending an extremely lengthy period of time in the fieldwork area,
living among, and interacting with local people.
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