Livingstone argues: “Society is witnessing a historic shift from a dualistic communication environment in which mass mediated communication variously gradually came to complement or undermine the traditional reliance on interpersonal communication. We are moving towards an environment characterized by diverse, intersecting, and still-evolving forms of multimodal, interactive, networked forms of communication” (Livingstone 2009: ix).
The Google search “sociolinguistic change” yields 2,640 hits (26 February 2013, including repetitions). A detailed inspection of the first 100 hits suggests that besides occasional use in the sense of ‘language change in terms of sociolinguistic variables’, the term refers to processes such as language shift, ...
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