The native speaker concept : ethnographic investigations of native speaker effects

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The volume forges a new look at the "native speaker" by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts. Using anthropological and educational frameworks and ethnographic data from around the world, the book addresses the questions of who qualifies as a "native speaker" and his/her social relations in the regime of standardization in multilingual situations. Content: Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. Setting the stage: 1. Investigating 'native speaker effects': toward a new model of analyzing 'native speaker' ideologies / Neriko Musha Doerr -- 2. Toward a 'natural' history of the native (standard) speaker / Robert Train -- 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 -- 4. The localization of multicultural education and the reproduction of the 'native speaker' concept in Japan / Yuko Okubo -- 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 -- 6. Social class, linguistic normativity and the authority of the 'native Catalan speaker' in Barcelona / Susan E. Frekko -- 7. Uncovering another 'native speaker myth': juxtaposing standardization processes in first and second languages of English-as-a-second-language learners / Neriko Musha Doerr -- 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 -- 9. Rethinking the superiority of the native speaker: toward a relational understanding of power / Ryuko Kubota -- 10. Heterogeneity in linguistic practice, competence and ideology: language and community on Easter Island / Miki Makihara -- 11. Communication as an intersubjective and collaborative activity: When the native/non-native speaker's identity appears in computer-mediated communication / Shinji Sato -- Part V. Moving forward: 12. Towards a critical orientation in second language education / Neriko Musha Doerr and Yuri Kumagai -- References -- Index. Abstract: Presents a fresh look at the 'native speaker' by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts. Using anthropological frameworks and ethnographic data from around the world, this book addresses the questions of who qualifies as a 'native speaker' and his/her social relations in the regime of standardization in multilingual situations. Read more...