Editing Sociolinguistics (section)

=== Beginnings ===
The social aspects of language were in the modern sense first studied by Indian and Japanese linguists in the 1930s, and also by [[Louis Gauchat]] in [[Switzerland]] in the early 1900s, but none received much attention in the West until much later. The study of the social motivation of [[language change]], on the other hand, has its foundation in the [[wave model]] of the late 19th century. The first attested use of the term ''sociolinguistics'' was by [[Thomas Callan Hodson]] in the title of his 1939 article "Sociolinguistics in India" published in ''Man in India''.<ref>Paulston, Christine Bratt and G. Richard Tucker, eds. ''Sociolinguistics: The Essential Readings''. Malden, Ma.: Wiley-Blackwell, 2003.</ref><ref>[http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ss15/papers/paper_details.php?id=304 T. C. Hodson and the Origins of British Socio-linguistics by John E. Joseph] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090210082008/http://ncl.ac.uk/ss15/papers/paper_details.php?id=304 |date=2009-02-10 }} Sociolinguistics Symposium 15, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, April 2004</ref>

[[Dialectology]] is an old field, and in the early 20th century, dialectologists such as [[Hans Kurath]] and [[Raven I. McDavid Jr.]] initiated large scale surveys of dialect regions in the U.S.