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Presents a fresh look at the 'native speaker' by situating him/her in wider sociopolitical contexts. Using anthropological frameworks and ethnographic data from

The "native speaker" is often thought of as an ideal language user with "a complete and possibly innate competence in the language" which is perceived as being

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 co

Ten articles authored by linguists explore not only the cognitive terrain of what constitutes a native language, but also the socio-historical implications of c