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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... intelligibility and , as we have already suggested , influence whether or not individuals ( and even groups ) understand one another . Wolff ( 1959 ) cites cases of unidirectional intelligibility among groups in West Africa . There ...
... intelligibility and , as we have already suggested , influence whether or not individuals ( and even groups ) understand one another . Wolff ( 1959 ) cites cases of unidirectional intelligibility among groups in West Africa . There ...
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... intelligible to us . Intelligibility is also supported by the linguistic fact of redundancy . For it is the case that our messages are hugely oversubscribed in the attention they are given and the repetition they receive . In normal ...
... intelligible to us . Intelligibility is also supported by the linguistic fact of redundancy . For it is the case that our messages are hugely oversubscribed in the attention they are given and the repetition they receive . In normal ...
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... intelligibility argument ) be a modicum of linguistic ( which means historical ) sharing yet beyond that what seems to matter is that native speaker 1 and native speaker 2 wish to belong to one lect . The power explanation And this is ...
... intelligibility argument ) be a modicum of linguistic ( which means historical ) sharing yet beyond that what seems to matter is that native speaker 1 and native speaker 2 wish to belong to one lect . The power explanation And this is ...
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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