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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... claiming all the time is not just ' this is how I speak ' but ' this is how men or how women speak ' . And that claim must be respected : that they know and the other sex does not . Of course there is inevitably an air of secrecy about ...
... claiming all the time is not just ' this is how I speak ' but ' this is how men or how women speak ' . And that claim must be respected : that they know and the other sex does not . Of course there is inevitably an air of secrecy about ...
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... claim for themselves . They may very well prefer to claim that their first language or their dominant language is Singa- porean English of which therefore they would claim to be native speakers . For me to say to them that they can ...
... claim for themselves . They may very well prefer to claim that their first language or their dominant language is Singa- porean English of which therefore they would claim to be native speakers . For me to say to them that they can ...
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... claim that , say , Hindi and English were together one language , but a less extreme claim might be that the Scandinavian languages , English , Dutch , German , and Frisian are all so closely related that one Grammar 2 ( a common ...
... claim that , say , Hindi and English were together one language , but a less extreme claim might be that the Scandinavian languages , English , Dutch , German , and Frisian are all so closely related that one Grammar 2 ( a common ...
Contents
Sociolinguistic Aspects of the Native Speaker | 51 |
Communicative Competence Aspects of the Native Speaker | 97 |
Intelligibility and the Speech Community | 118 |
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