The native speaker concept
Subtitle: ethnographic investigations of native speaker effects
By: edited by Neriko Musha Doerr.
Contributors: Doerr, Neriko Musha, 1967-
Series: Language, power and social process -- 26
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9783110220940
Subjects: Native language; Multilingualism; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Part I. Setting the stage: 1. Investigating 'native speaker effects': toward a new model of analyzing 'native speaker' ideologies / Neriko Musha Doerr; title: 2. Toward a 'natural' history of the native (standard) speaker / Robert Train; title: Part II. Nation-states' designs and people's actions: 3. 'Native speaker' status on border-crossing: The Okinawan Nikkei diaspora, national language, and heterogeneity / Michiyo Takato; title: 4. The localization of multicultural education and the reproduction of the 'native speaker' concept in Japan / Yuko Okubo; title: Part III. Standardizing impulses and their subversions: 5. Being 'multilingual' in a South African township: Functioning well with a patchwork of standardized and hybrid languages / Victoria J. Baker; title: 6. Social class, linguistic normativity and the authority of the 'native Catalan speaker' in Barcelona / Susan E. Frekko; title: 7. Uncovering another 'native speaker myth': Juxtaposing standardization processes in first and second languages of English-as-a-second-language learners / Neriko Musha Doerr; title: Part IV. Revisiting 'competence': 8. 'We don't speak Maya, Spanish or English': Yucatec Maya-speaking transnationals in California and the social construction of competence / Anne Whiteside; title: 9. Rethinking the superiority of the native speaker: Toward a relational understanding of power / Ryuko Kubota; title: 10. Heterogeneity in linguistic practice, competence, and ideology: Language and community on Easter Island / Miki Makihara; title: 11. Communication as an intersubjective and collaborative activity: When the native/non-native speaker's identity appears in computer-mediated communication / Shinji Sato; title: Part V. Moving forward: 12. Towards a critical orientation in second language education / Neriko Musha Doerr and Yuri Kumagai; title: References; title: Author index; title: Subject index.