The native speaker and the mother tongue
Citation
Love, N. and Ansaldo, U. 2010. The native speaker and the mother tongue. Language Sciences. 32 (6): pp. 589-593.
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Language Sciences
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Faculty of Humanities
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School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry
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Abstract
This article presents a historical account of the role and function in linguistic theorising of the concepts “native speaker” and “mother tongue”, and serves to introduce a number of articles (Language Sciences vol. 32 no. 6) raising questions about various aspects of the idealised monolingualism that underlies much modern linguistics.
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