The native speaker and the mother tongue

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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
Subjects:	Social Sciences Linguistics Language & Linguistics Language and identity Monolingualism Mother tongue Multilingualism Native speaker Ownership of languages LANGUAGE
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/86368

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