The Emergence of the English Native Speaker : : A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought / / Stephanie Hackert.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• VerfasserIn: Hackert, Stephanie,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Language and Social Processes [LSP] , 4
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (306 p.)

The native speaker is one of the central but at the same time most controversial concepts of modern linguistics. With regard to English, it became especially controversial with the rise of the so-called "New Englishes," where reality is much more complex than the neat distinction into native and non-native speakers would make us believe. This volume reconstructs the coming-into-being of the English native speaker in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to probe into the origins of the problems surrounding the concept today. A corpus of texts which includes not only the classics of the nineteenth-century linguistic literature but also numerous lesser-known articles from periodical journals of the time is investigated by means of historical discourse analysis in order to retrace the production and reproduction of this particularly important linguistic ideology.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker -- 2 The native speaker in contemporary linguistics -- 3 Identities, ideologies, and discourse: Toward a theoretical and methodological framework -- 4 The ideologies of Marsh (1859): A close reading -- Part II: “Good” English and the “best” speakers: The native speaker and standards of language, speech, and writing -- 5 Defining and delimiting “English” and “standard English” -- 6 The question of standard spoken English and the dialects -- 7 Spoken vs. written language and the native speaker -- Part III: Language, nation, and race: Of Anglo- Saxons and English speakers conquering the world -- 8 Nationalism, racism, and the native speaker -- 9 Anglo-Saxonism and the English native speaker -- 10 The language of the world: In praise of English -- 11 Conclusion -- References -- Author index -- Subject index