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 54
... fact that two languages have the same origin in one parent language ( like the Romance languages ) , will not do if too long a time has elapsed since the split ( as in the case of Finnish and Hungarian ) or if speakers no longer wish to ...
... fact that two languages have the same origin in one parent language ( like the Romance languages ) , will not do if too long a time has elapsed since the split ( as in the case of Finnish and Hungarian ) or if speakers no longer wish to ...
Page 62
... fact of official , administrative use , the fact of publishing in bulk , of exposure in the media , both newspapers and broadcasting , of a centralised education system , all of these influence a language towards standardisation - the ...
... fact of official , administrative use , the fact of publishing in bulk , of exposure in the media , both newspapers and broadcasting , of a centralised education system , all of these influence a language towards standardisation - the ...
Page 104
... facts of communicative competence from the learning of communicative competence . In this way we will both ... fact of abstraction in language is what permits change : but that change is in itself also arbitrary and so the 104 ...
... facts of communicative competence from the learning of communicative competence . In this way we will both ... fact of abstraction in language is what permits change : but that change is in itself also arbitrary and so the 104 ...
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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