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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... true of the British Black English example ( Sutcliffe , 1982 ) mi asks di man fi put mi moni iina him pakit as it is of the multiple negative Black English example already discussed . It is also true of the ways in which native speakers ...
... true of the British Black English example ( Sutcliffe , 1982 ) mi asks di man fi put mi moni iina him pakit as it is of the multiple negative Black English example already discussed . It is also true of the ways in which native speakers ...
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... true in the writer's special case it is equally true , though not of course so obvious , for us all . Writing of Nabokov , Steiner ( 1968 : 10 ) suggests that his writing is made up out of ' a private mixed idiom ' and again ' the ...
... true in the writer's special case it is equally true , though not of course so obvious , for us all . Writing of Nabokov , Steiner ( 1968 : 10 ) suggests that his writing is made up out of ' a private mixed idiom ' and again ' the ...
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... true for English is also true for other languages and indeed for all languages in that the continuum for English must continue into other continuums such as the one for Friesian , Dutch and German . Discrete langues , like discrete ...
... true for English is also true for other languages and indeed for all languages in that the continuum for English must continue into other continuums such as the one for Friesian , Dutch and German . Discrete langues , like discrete ...
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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