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The Native Speaker: Myth and Reality: Alan Davies brings together a range of views on the concept of the native speaker. He considers the psycholinguistic, the linguistic and the sociolinguistic aspects, examining the Critical Period Hypothesis, the role of the Standard Language, the kinds of knowledge (mentalinguistic, discriminating, communicational and skills) that the native speaker possesses, and the importance of communicative competence in enabling the native speaker to use language felicitously. While the native speaker may be intelligible to other native speakers, this mutual intelligibility depends in part on attitudinal factors. Loss of a heritage language (and the related spread today of World Englishes) raises doubts about identity, while recent empirical work in Second Language Acquisition and in Language Assessment questions the conventional view of ultimate attainment. This book's conclusion is that, with the exception of early childhood exposure, all characteristics of the native speaker are contingent. How far can those contingent characteristics (for example, grammatical intuitions, creativity) be acquired without substantive early exposure? It is suggested that this is possible, if difficult and rare. The fundamental opposition between native and non-native speakers, it is concluded, is one of power: native speaker membership is determined by the non-native speaker's willingness to assume confidence and identity.
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| Weight: | 0.32 kg |
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CDN$ 43.95 (US$ 42.77) |
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| ISBN-10: | 1853596221 |
| ISBN-13/EAN: | 9781853596223 |
| Author: | Davies, Alan |
| Publisher: | Multilingual Matters Ltd
Clevedon |
| Publication Date: | 3/2003 |
| Pages: | 237 pages |
| Size/Dimensions: | 0.5 x 5.75 x 8.0 inches |
| Binding: | Paperback |
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