The sociology of language is a discipline that was born in the late 1950s to account for the linguistic problems of states in processes of decolonization. The new states, independent of their colonial metropolis, needed to be freed from the languages of the previous stage in order to remove all colonial waste. For that, the sociology of language appears, which seeks to intervene directly in the language through linguistic policies and planning, carried out (mainly) by the State, in order to build a national identity.
The sociology of language is directly related to the concepts of linguistic policy and linguistic planning. Several authors give multiple definitions of both, but we can say that: the first tries to account for the legal and legal framework necessary to provide a certain role or status to one or more languages; the second is the implementation of the language policies that were previously determined.
International theorists include the American pioneer Joshua Fishman and José María Sánchez Carrión in the Hispanic field, among others.
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