The Native Speaker: Myth and RealityLinguists, applied linguists and language teachers all appeal to the native speaker as an important reference point. But what exactly (who exactly?) is the native speaker? This book examines the native speaker from different points of view, arguing that the native speaker is both myth and reality. |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 11
Page 19
... Saussure's use of langue ( de Saussure , 1966 ) was an attempt to define not the native speaker but what it is that is shared by a language community . In putting forward his trinity of categories : • langage ( everything going on ...
... Saussure's use of langue ( de Saussure , 1966 ) was an attempt to define not the native speaker but what it is that is shared by a language community . In putting forward his trinity of categories : • langage ( everything going on ...
Page 21
Myth and Reality Alan Davies. Bartsch , Saussure never made his own position clear , wanting language somehow to include both norms and system : ― Saussure seems to have made a distinction betweem norm and system as two aspects of the ...
Myth and Reality Alan Davies. Bartsch , Saussure never made his own position clear , wanting language somehow to include both norms and system : ― Saussure seems to have made a distinction betweem norm and system as two aspects of the ...
Page 119
... Saussure : Theoretically , for de Saussure , a difference of a single phoneme or a single sign suffices to distinguish two separate sign systems . And he does not shrink from the conclusion that what are commonly called ' languages ...
... Saussure : Theoretically , for de Saussure , a difference of a single phoneme or a single sign suffices to distinguish two separate sign systems . And he does not shrink from the conclusion that what are commonly called ' languages ...
Contents
Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 9 |
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Lingualism and the Knowledges of the Native Speaker | 77 |
Copyright | |
7 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept acquired adult applied linguistics argued argument attitudes Bartsch become a native behaviour bilingual British English Cambridge Chapter child claim cognitive communicative competence context Coppieters course culture define definition dialect discussion distinction distinguish example exceptional learners fact foreign language Gumperz his/her idealised identity idiolect individual input intelligibility interaction International English issue judgements Knowledges 1-3 Konkani language learning language proficiency language teaching langue linguistic competence means Medgyes membership monolingual mother tongue Multilingual native speaker native-speaker négritude non-native speakers norms Oxford perhaps possible problem psycholinguistic question recognise regarded relation relevant s/he Saussure Scottish English second language acquisition second-language learners semilingualism sense sentences share Singapore Singaporean English Singh situations social sociolinguistic speak speakers of English speech community standard language suggested target language teachers universal grammar University Press Urdu users Welsh writing