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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... speech community , the standard language and stereotypes of language use . The Speech Community The speech community is most helpfully seen as a primitive sociolinguistic category which escapes precise definition but nevertheless has a ...
... speech community , the standard language and stereotypes of language use . The Speech Community The speech community is most helpfully seen as a primitive sociolinguistic category which escapes precise definition but nevertheless has a ...
Page 57
... speech community systematically use ( or admit the use of ) stigmatised forms according to context but in different amounts and contexts ( Labov , 1972 ) . Members of a speech community know implicitly what the conven- tional ...
... speech community systematically use ( or admit the use of ) stigmatised forms according to context but in different amounts and contexts ( Labov , 1972 ) . Members of a speech community know implicitly what the conven- tional ...
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... speech community and is of value only as an addition to and a commentary on the acceptance of the notion of speech community . So I am left with the second definition and indeed this , with all its vagueness , seems the most useful .
... speech community and is of value only as an addition to and a commentary on the acceptance of the notion of speech community . So I am left with the second definition and indeed this , with all its vagueness , seems the most useful .
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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