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. |
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Page 109
... Urdu and Punjabi and Pahari / Mirpuri are different languages and that most of these children are not native speakers of Urdu has provoked debate about whether Urdu is properly described as the mother tongue of most of those learning it ...
... Urdu and Punjabi and Pahari / Mirpuri are different languages and that most of these children are not native speakers of Urdu has provoked debate about whether Urdu is properly described as the mother tongue of most of those learning it ...
Page 135
... Urdu and , more importantly , differentiated by the use of two distinct scripts , Nagari for Hindi and Arabic for Urdu . It is therefore loyalty to the implied norms of one or the other language which makes a speaker claim to be a Hindi ...
... Urdu and , more importantly , differentiated by the use of two distinct scripts , Nagari for Hindi and Arabic for Urdu . It is therefore loyalty to the implied norms of one or the other language which makes a speaker claim to be a Hindi ...
Page 139
... Urdu that he turns in his search for a code model . He finds increasingly in non - family situations where Urdu is being used that even though his dialect approximates to Standard Urdu he feel inhibited and foolish and somewhat ignorant ...
... Urdu that he turns in his search for a code model . He finds increasingly in non - family situations where Urdu is being used that even though his dialect approximates to Standard Urdu he feel inhibited and foolish and somewhat ignorant ...
Contents
Psycholinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 9 |
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Lingualism and the Knowledges of the Native Speaker | 77 |
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