What ideas about the relationship between changing technologies, language, and social relations could you suggest to you friend as worth studying?

Changing technologies, language, and social relations

Consider how changing technologies are altering the ways you communicate with family, friends, and even strangers. Suppose your best friend decides to study sociolinguistics in graduate school. What ideas about the relationship between changing technologies, language, and social relations could you suggest to you friend as worth studying? Refer to concepts you’ve learned from the textbook this week.

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