The native speaker and the mother tongue
This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “native speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism th...
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| author | Love, Nigel Ansaldo, Umberto |
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| description | This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “native speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism that underlies much modern linguistics. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-863682021-11-11T07:56:32Z The native speaker and the mother tongue Love, Nigel Ansaldo, Umberto Social Sciences Linguistics Language & Linguistics Language and identity Monolingualism Mother tongue Multilingualism Native speaker Ownership of languages LANGUAGE This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “native speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism that underlies much modern linguistics. 2010 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86368 10.1016/j.langsci.2010.09.003 en ELSEVIER SCI LTD restricted |
| spellingShingle | Social Sciences Linguistics Language & Linguistics Language and identity Monolingualism Mother tongue Multilingualism Native speaker Ownership of languages LANGUAGE Love, Nigel Ansaldo, Umberto The native speaker and the mother tongue |
| title | The native speaker and the mother tongue |
| title_full | The native speaker and the mother tongue |
| title_fullStr | The native speaker and the mother tongue |
| title_full_unstemmed | The native speaker and the mother tongue |
| title_short | The native speaker and the mother tongue |
| title_sort | native speaker and the mother tongue |
| topic | Social Sciences Linguistics Language & Linguistics Language and identity Monolingualism Mother tongue Multilingualism Native speaker Ownership of languages LANGUAGE |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86368 |