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

by Stephanie Hackert

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1614511403
• ISBN13: 9781614511403
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: de Gruyter Mouton
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary