“社会语言学”术语溯源

On the Source of the Term Sociolinguistics

国内外出版的有关社会语言学的论著认为美国H.C.Currie1952年首次使用“社会语言学”术语。这种提法尚待商榷。法国学者A.多扎1910年使用过“社会语言学”,原苏联学者Б.А.拉林和Е.Д.波利瓦诺夫1928年都使用过“社会(学)语言学”,英国东方学学者托马斯·卡伦·霍德森(Hodson)1939年使用过与如今使用的英语对应词完全一致的术语。英国J.R.弗思和法国M.柯恩等也都早就使用过类似术语。

Many authors of the books and papers contributed to sociolinguistics consider American scholar H.C.Currie as the one who first used the term sociolinguistics in 1952.However,such statement needs further clarification.In fact,the French linguist A.Dauzat had used the term Linguistique Sociale as early as in 1910.Later the former Soviet Union scholars B.A.Larin and E.D.Polivanov used the term социологичe-ская лингвистика in 1928.The English orientalist Thomas Callan Hodson used the term sociolinguistics in 1939,which uniformly corresponds to the current English usage. Furthermore,the English linguist J.R.Firth and French scholar M.Cohen used the same term before the year of 1952.