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The emergence of the English native speaker : a chapter in nineteenth-century linguistic thought /
The 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 liter...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Boston :
De Gruyter Mouton,
©2012.
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| Colección: | Language and Social Processes LSP.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; Part I: A discourse-historical approach to the English native speaker; 2 The native speaker in contemporary linguistics; 2.1 So what is the problem with the native speaker?; 2.2 Defining the native speaker; 2.3 The native speaker in the World Englishes context; 2.3.1 Modeling World Englishes; 2.3.2 The ownership question: Whose English is it?; 2.4 Approaches to the native speaker: Features or historical construct?; 2.5 The birth of the English native speaker; 3 Identities, ideologies, and discourse: Toward a theoretical and methodological framework.
- 3.1 Linguistic identities and ideologies3.2 Discourse as a scientific object; 3.3 Discourse as a linguistic object; 3.3.1 Linguistic approaches to discourse I: Historical discourse analysis; 3.3.2 Digression: Late-nineteenth century intertextuality and the notion of the discourse community; 3.3.3 Linguistic approaches to discourse II: Critical Discourse Analysis; 3.4 The corpus; 3.4.1 Socio- and linguistic-historical background; 3.4.2 Constitution of the corpus; 3.4.3 A note on quoted material; 4 The ideologies of Marsh (1859): A close reading; 4.1 The introduction.
- 4.2 Of native speakers, native languages, and native philology4.3 Names for English and its speakers; 4.4 Summary; 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"; 5.1 The native speaker and the standard language in the World Englishes context; 5.2 Defining a language: Stability and staticity as theoretical and methodological necessities of nineteenth- and twentieth-century linguistics.
- 5.2.1 Nineteenth-century attempts at solving the problem of linguistic heterogeneity5.2.2 The "imagination" of standard English through the OED; 6 The question of standard spoken English and the dialects; 6.1 From written to spoken standards for English; 6.1.1 Standard spoken English: Where is it to be found?; 6.1.2 English = standard English; 6.1.3 Standard English = educated English; 6.1.4 Educated speakers are the "best" speakers; 6.1.5 Can we not define the standard linguistically?; 6.1.6 "Educated" = public-school educated; 6.1.7 Of "natural" educated speakers "to the language born."
- 6.1.8 Educated English = a level of excellence which need not be homogenous in reality6.1.9 Colloquial English and the naturalness problem; 6.2 The standard and the dialects; 6.2.1 Whence the new interest in the dialects?; 6.2.2 The status of the dialects vis-à-vis the standard language; 6.2.3 The dialects' contribution to the historicization of the standard language: "Primitive" forms and "Anglo-Saxon" words; 6.2.4 Preservation of the dialects: "Antique curiosities" or actual means of communication?; 6.2.5 "Genuine" dialect and "authentic" speakers: The emergence of the NORM.