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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Main Authors: Love, Nigel, Ansaldo, Umberto
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: ELSEVIER SCI LTD 2010
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86368
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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