The Emergence of the English Native Speaker: A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought

Stephanie Hackert

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2013

The Emergence of the English Native Speaker

A Chapter in Nineteenth-Century Linguistic Thought

Stephanie Hackert

Volume 4 in the series Language and Social Processes [LSP]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614511052

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The native speaker is one of the central but at the same time most controversial concepts of modern linguistics. With regard to English, it became especially controversial with the rise of the so-called "New Englishes," where reality is much more complex than the neat distinction into native and non-native speakers would make us believe. This volume reconstructs the coming-into-being of the English native speaker in the second half of the nineteenth century in order to probe into the origins of the problems surrounding the concept today. A corpus of texts which includes not only the classics of the nineteenth-century linguistic literature but also numerous lesser-known articles from periodical journals of the time is investigated by means of historical discourse analysis in order to retrace the production and reproduction of this particularly important linguistic ideology.

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Stephanie Hackert, Ludwig Maximilians University, Munich, Germany.

Reviews

"In sum, this book provides a new angle on a key concept, that of the English native speaker, and will provide both information and historical insight to researchers in any of the several fields where this concept has prominence and impact."
Kimberly Renée Chopin in: Linguist List 24.2731

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1 Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part I: A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker
2 The native speaker in contemporary linguistics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
3 Identities, ideologies, and discourse: Toward a theoretical and methodological framework Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	33
4 The ideologies of Marsh (1859): A close reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
Part II: “Good” English and the “best” speakers: The native speaker and standards of language, speech, and writing
5 Defining and delimiting “English” and “standard English” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
6 The question of standard spoken English and the dialects Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7 Spoken vs. written language and the native speaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Part III: Language, nation, and race: Of Anglo- Saxons and English speakers conquering the world
8 Nationalism, racism, and the native speaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
9 Anglo-Saxonism and the English native speaker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	213
10 The language of the world: In praise of English Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
11 Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Author index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Subject index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	303

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Institutional Libraries, Students and Researchers in Applied Linguistics, English Sociolinguistics, Historical Linguistics and Cultural Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 306
Keywords: Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Historical Linguistics; English Studies

eBook

Published: December 6, 2012
ISBN: 9781614511052

Hardcover

Published: November 15, 2012
ISBN: 9781614511403