The Native Speaker Concept : : Ethnographic Investigations of Native Speaker Effects /

The Native Speaker Concept : : Ethnographic Investigations of Native Speaker Effects / / ed. by Neriko Musha Doerr.

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The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being bounded and fixed to a homogeneous speech community and linked to a nation-state. Despite recent works that challenge it...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
MitwirkendeR:
Baker, Victoria J.,
Doerr, Neriko Musha,
Frekko, Susan E.,
Kubota, Ryuko,
Kumagai, Yuri,
Makihara, Miki,
Okubo, Yuko,
Sato, Shinji,
Takato, Michiyo,
Train, Robert,
Whiteside, Anne,
HerausgeberIn:
Doerr, Neriko Musha,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Language, Power and Social Process [LPSP] , 26
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Physical Description:1 online resource (390 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Setting the stage
  • Chapter 1 Investigating “native speaker effects”: Toward a new model of analyzing “native speaker” ideologies
  • Chapter 2 Toward a “natural” history of the native (standard) speaker
  • Part II. Nation-states’ designs and people’s actions
  • Chapter 3 “Native speaker” status on border-crossing: The Okinawan Nikkei diaspora, national language, and heterogeneity
  • Chapter 4 The localization of multicultural education and the reproduction of the “native speaker” concept in Japan
  • Part III. Standardizing impulses and their subversions
  • Chapter 5 Being “multilingual” in a SouthAfrican township: Functioning well with a patchwork of standardized and hybrid languages
  • Chapter 6 Social class, linguistic normativity and the authority of the “native Catalan speaker” in Barcelona
  • Chapter 7 Uncovering another “native speaker myth”: Juxtaposing standardization processes in first and second languages of English-as-a-Second-Language learners
  • Part IV. Revisiting “competence”
  • Chapter 8 “We don’t speak Maya, Spanish or English”: Yucatec Maya-speaking transnationals in California and the social construction of competence
  • Chapter 9 Rethinking the superiority of the native speaker: Toward a relational understanding of power
  • Chapter 10 Heterogeneity in linguistic practice, competence and ideology: Language and community on Easter Island
  • Chapter 11 Communication as an intersubjective and collaborative activity: When the native/non-native speaker’s identity appears in computer-mediated communication
  • Part V. Moving forward
  • Chapter 12 Towards a critical orientation in second language education
  • Backmatter

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