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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... 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 multilingual ...
... 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 multilingual ...
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... writing , but as will become clear shortly , we assume for this argument that the community is not literate . Such variation does not compare with the variety that exists in a big city or across a country . The remote community can ...
... writing , but as will become clear shortly , we assume for this argument that the community is not literate . Such variation does not compare with the variety that exists in a big city or across a country . The remote community can ...
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... writer James Ngugi ( Ngugi wa'Thiong'o ) who decided in mid - career that he would switch from writing in English to writing in Kikuyu , his first language : ' The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation . Language was the ...
... writer James Ngugi ( Ngugi wa'Thiong'o ) who decided in mid - career that he would switch from writing in English to writing in Kikuyu , his first language : ' The bullet was the means of the physical subjugation . Language was the ...
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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