SOCIOLINGVISTIKA A SOCIÁLNE ASPEKTY VÝSKUMU JAZYKA V ČASOPISE SLOVENSKÁ REČ

The article is a retrospective of the development of sociolinguistics on the pages of the Slovenská reč journal. Although sociolinguistics began to establish itself in Slovak studies only in the 1980s, the author traces social motives from the very beginning of the journal. The author identifies three developmental stages of sociolinguistics in Slovenská reč: (1) the pre-sociolinguistic stage from 1932 to 1955, (2) the implicit leitmotif-like stage from 1955 to 1979, and (3) the modern stage, characterized as its own sociolinguistic stage – from 1979 to the present day. In each period, the author introduces important social aspects resonating in the journal, recalling published works, authors, and contemporary contexts that framed the reflection on social themes in linguistic work. The third part reflects on modern sociolinguistic thinking in Slovak studies and the internal differentiation of the discipline within the Slovak language. It captures the diversity of themes and approaches in individual conceptual domains.