35.3595, FYI: Pre-1960s Sociolinguistics

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Subject: 35.3595, FYI: Pre-1960s Sociolinguistics

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Date: 19-Dec-2024
From: Dick Smakman [d.smakman at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Pre-1960s Sociolinguistics


The term ‘Sociolinguistics’ started being used regularly in the 1960s.
Before this time, research involving the social aspects of language
had already been done. We would like to publish a selection of these
in English -- in some shape or form, like summaries, depending on the
available of the publications in question. The volume will provide
insight into the early origins of the field.

In the nineteenth century in particular, the awareness of the
disappearance of dialects triggered an effort to describe small
languages and the cultures of which they were a part. At the same
time, awareness was growing of the psychological aspects of language
in communication. In the second half of the nineteenth century, a
broader discussion was also taking place concerning whether language
was part of the Natural Sciences or the Humanities. All of this laid
the foundations of the field of Sociolinguistics.

It is known that Japan (e.g. Tanabe 1936, Tachibana 1943) and India
(e.g. Pandit 1955) have rich traditions of socio-dialectological
research, which are now relatively unknown. The same is true for
former Yugoslavia, Russia (e.g. Selishchev 1928, Danilov 1929,
Polivanov 1931), Argentina (e.g Guitarte 1955, Barrenechea 1951), the
Netherlands (e.g Boelens and Van der Veen 1956, Weijnen 1946), and the
United States (e.g. Kurath 1949). The research varied from the study
of the language of mine workers, soldiers, and, of course, of dialect
speakers.

The intended publication will be the fourth part of the Globalising
Sociolinguistics series published by Routledge: The first two are:
https://www.routledge.com/Globalising-Sociolinguistics-Challenging-and-Expanding-Theory/Smakman-Heinrich/p/book/9780415725606
and
https://www.routledge.com/Urban-Sociolinguistics-The-City-as-a-Linguistic-Process-and-Experience/Smakman-Heinrich/p/book/9781138200371.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Sociolinguistics




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